Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.

Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians ( including Latgalians ) — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.

Among modern humans, cannibalism has been practiced by various groups.

Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.

Among the more famous regiments in the lineages of modern Indian and Pakistani Armies are: The charge of the 21st Lancers at Battle of Omdurman | Omdurman

Among the first manufacturers of modern cornets were Parisian Jean Asté in 1828.

Among the chief ecclesiastical centres named in the records are Dunkeld, probably seat of the bishop of the kingdom, and Cell Rígmonaid ( modern St Andrews ).

Among these were some surprisingly sophisticated principles, and a modern mathematician might be hard put to derive some of them without the use of calculus.

Among modern critics, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique wrote, " In the end, Destroy All Monsters is too slim in its storyline, too thin in its characterizations, to be considered a truly great film.

Among modern critics of the theory of Great Man one should mention Sidney Hook, whose book The Hero in History is devoted to the role of the hero and in history and influence of the outstanding persons.

Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as Icelandic, German and Modern Greek, which have four.

Among these was the Maison " Citrohan ", a pun on the name of the French Citroën automaker, for the modern industrial methods and materials Le Corbusier advocated using for the house.

Among modern scholars it is a matter of debate whether the Aztec narratives of Toltec history should be given credence as descriptions of actual historical events.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

Among Latter-day Saints the idea of " spirit birth " was described in its modern doctrinal form in 1909, when the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement:

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.

Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party.

Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a modern liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.

Among the foremost modern players of the viol are Claire Bracher, Alison Crum, Vittorio Ghielmi, Jérôme Hantaï, Lixsania Fernández, Wieland Kuijken, Paolo Pandolfo, Hille Perl and Jordi Savall.

Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.

Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

Among modern scholars it is a matter of debate whether the Aztec narratives of Toltec history should be given credence as descriptions of actual historical events.

Among many schools established in that time, the Kiev-Mogila Collegium ( the predecessor of modern Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ), founded by the Orthodox Metropolitan Peter Mogila ( Petro Mohyla ), was the most important.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

Among other influences, Napalm Death took impetus from the industrial music scene.

Among his earliest influences, Simon has cited Richard Ely ’ s economics textbook, Norman Angell ’ s The Great Illusion, and Henry George ’ s Progress and Poverty.

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau ( transcendentalism ), Josiah Warren (" sovereignty of the individual "), Lysander Spooner (" natural law "), Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( mutualism ), Anselme Bellegarrigue, Herbert Spencer (" law of equal liberty "), and Max Stirner ( egoism ).

Among his professors were Nicolai Abildgaard and Johannes Wiedewelt, who are both likely influences for his later neo-classicist style.

Among those early influences were the works of the German Expressionists, the surrealist work of Paul Klee, and the paintings of Georges Rouault.

Among the most significant of Beebe's influences on other researchers was Rachel Carson, who regarded Beebe as both a friend and an inspiration.

Among Peter Drucker's early influences was the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, a friend of his father ’ s, who impressed upon Drucker the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Among the musical influences Goldmark absorbed was the inescapable one, for a musical colorist, of Richard Wagner, whose anti-semitism stood in the way of any genuine warmth between them ; in 1872 Goldmark took a prominent role in the formation of the Vienna Wagner Society.

Among Van Zandt's major influences was Texas blues man Lightnin ' Hopkins, whose songs were a constant part of his repertoire.

Among her early influences were Luis Llorens Torres, Clara Lair, Rafael Alberti and Pablo Neruda.

Among his influences were Du Fu, Li Bai, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan.

Among artists the German Nazarene movement from 1809 and English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 both rejected the values of at least the later Renaissance, but in practice, and despite sometimes depicting medieval scenes, their work draws its influences mostly from the Early Renaissance rather than the Gothic or earlier periods-the early graphic work of John Millais being something of an exception.

Among these were folk influences from Moravia and Slovakia, which at that time were considered culturally backward in the cosmopolitan Czech capital.

Among his influences were puppet theater, commedia dell ' arte and the Belgian painter of the macabre, James Ensor.

Among his Princeton influences were Francis Landey Patton, who had been the prosecutor in a nineteenth century heresy trial, and B.

Among the film's artistic influences included 1940s big band and jazz music and Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s ( such as Betty Boop ).

Among the few stations still extant, these influences are perhaps best illustrated in his Old Colony station ( Easton, Massachusetts, 1881 – 1884 ).

Among the earliest influences on Volf ’ s intellectual development was Peter Kuzmič, a brilliant intellectual and educator and his brother-in-law.

Among the first of the many bands which came out of Seattle in the grunge era, Tad was notable for the fact that its music had noticeable Black Sabbath and Melvins influences, rather than the punk which influenced many other grunge bands.

Among his earliest influences, he said in 2001, were the Coulton Waugh adventure comic strip Dickie Dare " in The New York Sun.

Among his early influences were Andrei Bely, Aleksey Remizov, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Among the folkloric influences, Barrios is known to have played such popular paraguayan works as " Campamento Cerro León ", " Londón Carapé ", " Guyrá campana ", " Mamá Cumandá ".

Among his early musical influences were his father, who played banjo ukulele, as well as the Telstars and the Beatles.

Among Fleener's influences are ancient Egyptian art and the works of Chester Gould ( Dick Tracy ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ) and Al Capp ( Li ' l Abner ).