During this time, encroachment on their land and a series of massacres had reduced Awá numbers to about 300, of whom only about 60 were still living their traditional, isolated, hunter-gatherer way of life.

Babi Yar (;, Babyn Yar ) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

After a series of bloody, random massacres and bombings by Muslim Algerians in several towns and cities, the French Pieds-Noirs and urban French population began to demand that the French government engage in sterner countermeasures, including the proclamation of a state of emergency, capital punishment for political crimes, denunciation of all separatists, and most ominously, a call for ' tit-for-tat ' reprisal operations by police, military, and para-military forces.

In March 1923, Kerry saw a series of massacres of republican prisoners by National Army soldiers in reprisal for the ambush of their men — the most notorious being the killing of eight men with mines at Ballyseedy, near Tralee.

Eventually, most of the native population was displaced and / or sold into slavery as a result of King Philip's War and a series of massacres of local Indian villages.

In 1921, present day Malappuram district witnessed a series of devastating revolts and massacres known as the Moplah rebellions, followed by decades of frozen economical, social, and political development.

The war dragged on for several years longer in a series of desultory sallies and frontier massacres: neither the leaders in England nor France thought of weakening their position in Europe for the sake of a knock-out blow in North America.

A series of battles, including massacres of Texans at the Alamo, at Goliad, ended in a decisive Texas victory at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Eventually, conflicts with the Native American population ceased after most of the native population was displaced and / or sold into slavery as a result of King Philip's War and after a series of massacres of local Indian villages.

The case of 1337, at Deggendorf, celebrated locally as part of the " Deggendorfer Gnad " until 1992, led to a series of massacres across the region.

A number of punitive raids and massacres of aborigines were carried out in a series of local conflicts.

The descriptions of the Black War differ, ranging from a series of small conflicts and massacres to assertions that the methods used during the conflicts constitute genocide.

The Nijvel gang or the Brabant killers (" De Bende van Nijvel " or " de Bende " in Dutch, " Les Tueurs du Brabant " or " les Tueurs fous du Brabant wallon " or " les Tueurs fous du Brabant " in French ) is a group or groups thought to be responsible for the " Brabant massacres ", a series of violent attacks that occurred mostly in the province of Brabant in Belgium between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and over 20 others were injured.

Victims of Soviet NKVD in Lviv, June 1941. The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions committed by the Soviet NKVD against prisoners in Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was withdrawing after the German invasion in 1941 ( see Operation Barbarossa ).

For example, shortly before his appointment was announced, Austin published a sonnet entitled A Vindication of England, written in response to a series of sonnets by William Watson, published in the Westminster Gazette, that had accused Salisbury's government of betraying Armenia and abandoning its people to Turkish massacres.

The ELN has also occasionally operated with the FARC-EP and like FARC it has targeted civilians, according to a February 2005 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: " During 2004, the FARC-EP and the ELN carried out a series of attacks against the civilian population, including several massacres of civilians and kidnappings by the FARC-EP.

As a result, there was not a single war, but rather a series of violent engagements and massacres across the continent.

Over the next few years, the GIA began a series of massacres targeting entire neighborhoods or villages ; some evidence also suggests the involvement of government forces.

In response a group of Irish conspirators launched the Irish Rebellion of 1641, which quickly degenerated into a series of massacres of English and Scottish Protestant settlers in Ireland.

Prior to the arrival of British forces to Baghdad, the power vacuum erupted into a series of massacres and looting ( Farhud ), in which the Baghdadi Jewish community was hit particularly hard.

The campaign was a series of routs and massacres of Chinese forces at Oirat hands, even though the imperial troops in the region are estimated to have numbered as many as 500, 000 and Esen Tayisi had brought only 20, 000 cavalry, expecting mainly to engage in traditional Oirat border raiding.

Initially, Gerhardt directed his vigilante campaign at violent criminals, garnering some praise from the public, but his anger at abuse and neglect in general led him to kill drug-addicted negligent mothers and even their ( albeit violent ) children in a series of escalating massacres.

After Israel's Operation Black Arrow in 1955 which came as a result of a series of massacres in the city of Rehovot, the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian unit.

The Albanians were to receive a series of economic, political, administrative and cultural rights, but no formal autonomy.

In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.

Through spring 1912, a series of bilateral agreements between the Christian Balkan states ( Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia ) formed the Balkan League, which in October 1912 declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

The Balkan League (,,, ) was an alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Balkan states of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the time still controlled much of the Balkan peninsula.

In the resulting war, the combined Balkan armies effectively destroyed Ottoman power in Europe in a series of victories.

* Street Justice ( 1991 – 1993 ) ( series created by David Levinson, Mark Lisson and David H. Balkan )

A proponent of the Megali Idea, Venizelos pressed forward a series of reforms in society, as well as the military and administration, which helped Greece succeed in its goals during the Balkan Wars.

These were responsible for a series of large and devastating invasions of the Balkan regions of the empire which nearly caused its disintegration.

The Tatar raids and the series of mediocre rulers after Ivan Asen II, however, reduced Bulgaria to a narrow strip of land between the Balkan mountains and the Danube at the end of the 13th century.

The Yugoslav federation also collapsed in the early 1990s, followed by an outbreak of violence and aggression, in a series of conflicts known alternately as the Yugoslav War ( s ), the War in the Balkans, or rarely the Third Balkan War ( a term coined by British journalist Misha Glenny ).

The Maniots also took part in the series of wars that followed including the Balkan Wars, World War I, and the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ).

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

* Carnatic Wars, a series of military contests in India during the 18th century

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

The series of wars between Rome and Carthage were known to the Romans as the " Punic Wars " because of the Latin name for the Carthaginians: Punici, derived from Phoenici, referring to the Carthaginians ' Phoenician ancestry.

Lucas currently serves as executive producer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated television series on Cartoon Network, which was preceded by a feature film of the same name.

He is also working on a so-far untitled Star Wars live-action series.

This was shortly after the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one film, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally " gone back and finished the movie.

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

This series of civil wars that engulfed England in the 1640s and 50s is known to modern historians as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

They exist by that name only in the Expanded Universe, including video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Jedi Knight series ; the term is never used in any of the six Star Wars films.

This was the time when the long series of wars called the Khazar-Arab Wars began.

According to Dave Filoni, supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the look of the Police ' droid is based on the appearance of the Keystone Kops.

However, Niven later invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the Man-Kzin Wars as their setting.

If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run, although sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films ( e. g. Star Wars ).

Perhaps the most well-known example of mecha in Western culture are the Walkers such as the AT-AT and AT-ST from the Star Wars series of films.

In the second half of the 17th century and most of the eighteenth, Poznań was severely affected by a series of wars ( and attendant military occupations, lootings and destruction ) – the Second and Third Northern Wars, the War of the Polish Succession, the Seven Years ' War and the Bar Confederation rebellion.

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.

In the entertainment industry, this can manifest itself as calling a movie " Part 1 " once sequels are released or by slightly altering the title ( e. g. Star Wars: A New Hope or Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) to emphasize its connection with the sequel ( s ), or by referring to a television series as " the original ," as in Star Trek: The Original Series.