According to the Nán Qí shū 南齊書 ( Book of Southern Qi ) of Xiāo Zīxiǎn 簫子顯 ( 485 – 537 ) the Fúnán king Qiáochénrú Shéyébámó 僑陳如闍耶跋摩 ( Kauṇḍinya Jayavarman ) “ sent in the year 484 the Buddhist monk Nàqiéxiān 那伽仙 ( Nāgasena ) to offer presents to the Chinese emperor and to ask the emperor at the same time for help in conquering Línyì ( north of Campā ) ...

According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.

According to the Sejarah Melayu (" Malay Annals "), the Khmer prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara ( modern-day Beruas, Perak ) in the 700s.

According to William of Tyre, Godfrey may have supported Daimbert's efforts, and he agreed to take possession of " one or two other cities and thus enlarge the kingdom " if Daimbert were permitted to rule Jerusalem.

According to William of Tyre, " barely three hundred knights and two thousand foot soldiers could be found " in the kingdom in 1100 during Godfrey's siege of Arsuf.

According to Greek source, the original name of the Lydian kingdom was Maionia ( Μαιονία ), or Maeonia: Homer ( Iliad ii.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

According to Solomon's " wives turned his heart after other gods ", their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon's death.

According to, it was because of these sins that " the Lord punishes Solomon by tearing the kingdom in two ":

According to the most widely-used chronology, based on that by Edwin R. Thiele, the death of Solomon and the division of his kingdom occurred in the spring of 931 BC.

According to The Bible Unearthed, archaeological evidence suggests that the kingdom of Israel at the time of Solomon was little more than a small city state, and so it is implausible that Solomon received tribute as large as 666 talents of gold per year.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

According to Mahabharata, Purana, Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga kingdom.

According to the ancient Hindu Scriptures, it is said to have covered an area of, and was the capital of the powerful Hindu kingdom of Kosala ( Kaushal ).

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

According to the chronist Bartholomew of Lucca, he discussed with Rudolph, in general terms at least, of splitting the German Empire into four separate kingdoms-Lombardy, Burgundy, Tuscia and Germany, where Rudolph's kingdom would be made hereditary in addition to himself becoming emperor.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

According to the accounts of Greek historians, Cambyses II had left Patizeithes in charge of the kingdom when he headed for Egypt.

According to Mark 15: 43, Joseph was an " honourable counsellor ( bouleutēs ), who waited ( or " was searching ") for the kingdom of God " ( this use of counsellor is generally associated with the Sanhedrin ).

According to legend, the kingdom Silla began with the unification of six chiefdoms of the Jinhan confederacy by Bak Hyeokgeose in 57 BC, in the southeastern area of Korea.

According to local tradition, the founders of the Sakalava kingdom were Maroseraña ( or Maroseranana, " those who owned many ports ") princes, from the Fiherenana ( now Toliara ).

According to Swazi royalist tradition, these chiefdoms came to be classified in the Dlamini kingdom as the Emakhandzambile category of clans (" those found ahead ", e. g. the Gamedze ), meaning that they were on the land prior to Dlamini immigration and conquest, as opposed to the Bomdzabuko (" true Swazi ") who accompanied the Dlamini kings, and the Emafikemuva (" those who came behind ") who joined the kingdom later.

According to the bland description of a southern chronicler, he " succeeded to the kingdom of the Northumbrians ".

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to the Suda, he also had an eromenos, Palaephatus of Abydus.

According to Forbes magazine Armenia had the second worst economy in the world in 2011.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to The Annotated Alice, Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels.

According to Suetonius, Agrippina had a strict upbringing and education.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

According to Nicephorus Gregoras, Andronikos also had an illegitimate daughter, Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond.