He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.

He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in Spain, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works.

They did so at the invitation of their long-time ally, king Philip V of Macedon, a direct descendant of Antigonus, one of the Diadochi, the generals of Alexander the Great who had shared out his empire after his death in 323 BC.

He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother ; hence, he identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic.

Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus.

One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).

For hundreds of years this isolated population consisting now of 4. 400 inhabitants, has claimed to be the direct descendant of the Cimbri retreating in this area after the Roman aftermath.

" Princess X " was revealed to be Princess Marie Bonaparte, direct descendant of the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In Muriel Spark's 1976 novel The Takeover the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine believes himself to be a direct descendant of Caligula.

A small group of Bahá ' ís in Northern New Mexico believe that these descendants are eligible for appointment to the Guardianship and are waiting for such a direct descendant of Bahá ' u ' lláh to arise as the rightful Guardian.

Biblical tradition maintains that a direct descendant of David will be the Messiah.

The issue of the instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, and the supposition that the double bass is a direct descendant of the viol family is one that has not been entirely resolved.

* ed ( 1 ) from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs manual, a direct descendant of the original ed.

According to Shinto belief, Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

* German MG3, a direct descendant of the MG 42, is still in service with the German Army and others.

On his father's side, Hefner claims he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Nero was a direct descendant of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger.

Not only did the new Caesar belong to both the Julii and the Claudii, but he was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar as well.

Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

In 2006, a book written by journalist Milorad Bošnjak and machine engineer Slobodan Jakovljević ( a direct descendant of Jakov Obrenović, half-brother of Miloš Obrenović ), it was claimed that Karađorđe's ancestor was an Albanian Catholic from Kelmend called Đin Maraš Klimenta.

His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.

His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut.

German uses the accusative to mark direct objects and objects of certain prepositions, or adverbs relating to time.

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

Some like the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason have argued that the Second World War was a direct effect of the German economic system, which made expansionism necessary for domestic prosperity, indeed, survival ; and which made Jingoism necessary for the quelling of class conflicts.

The latter two are phonetically indistinguishable ; in writing, capitalization differs: " Ich war am essen " vs. " Ich war am Essen " ( I was eating, compared to the Standard German approximation: " Ich war beim Essen "); yet these forms are not standardized and thus are relatively infrequently written down or printed, even in quotations or direct speech.

Between one-fourth and one-third of the German population perished from direct military causes or from illness and starvation related to the war.

Napoleon established direct or indirect control over most of western Europe, including the German states apart from Prussia and Austria.

Germany had no direct interest in the Balkans, however, which was largely an Austrian and Russian sphere of influence, although King Carol of Romania was a German prince.

Besides a direct quote there exist many variations starting " Ich bin ein (+ noun, e. g., Frankfurter )" that is supposed to be understood by the primarily English-speaking audience based on the widespread knowledge of this German phrase and its myth.

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the governors of British East Africa ( as the Protectorate was generally known ) and German East Africa agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct hostilities.

He told the British, after a direct question to Franco, that German troops would never be permitted to cross Spain to attack Gibraltar.

On Hitler ’ s direct order the German government paid her 7 million reichsmarks in compensation.

Landau lies east of the Palatinate forest, Europe's largest contiguous forest, direct on the German Wine Route.

The current GPMG of the German Army, the MG3, is a direct evolution of the MG42.

Since Tod is a direct cognate to " death ", in that case it would be a German borrowing.

The toadstool's connection to toads may be direct, in reference to some species of poisonous toad, or may just be a case of phonosemantic matching from the German word.

In 963 the German Margrave Gero conquered territories occupied by the Polabian Lusatian and Słupian tribes, and as a result came into direct contact with the Polish state.

* In Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris ( 1963 ), German film director Fritz Lang plays himself attempting to direct a film adaptation of the Odyssey.

In 1899, the German imperial government assumed direct control of the territory, thereafter known as German New Guinea.

One of the most direct public notices of the universal authority of the pope came in Innocent III ’ s “ Papal Decree on the choice of a German King, 1201 ".

The Nazis sought to legitimize their power historiographically by portraying their ascendancy to rule as the direct continuation of an ancient German past.

* Reichstag Fire Decree ( 1933 ), an order issued by German President Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire.