After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths ' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia.

Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls-on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army at the time was to destroy the land outside the walls.

In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

By 667, the Afghan area was under invasion by the Arabs but in 683 Kabul revolted and completely routed the invading army which was led by the Governor of Seistan.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

He is remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Moorish army.

A city where the citadel held out against an invading army was not considered conquered.

Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German army to Moscow in 1915.

The invading Prussian army faced little resistance until checked at the Battle of Valmy ( 20 September 1792 ), and forced to withdraw.

Other examples of heads of state in parliamentary systems using greater powers than usual, either because of ambiguous constitutions or unprecedented national emergencies, include the decision by King Léopold III of the Belgians to surrender on behalf of his state to the invading German army in 1940, against the will of his government.

2 Kings 3: 27 has been interpreted as describing a human sacrifice in Moab that led the invading Israelite army to fear the power of Chemosh.

It made first mention of the organisation treating " the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a national army would treat the members of an invading army ".

Parts of the city were still ruined from the damage inflicted by Hulago Khan's invading army in 1255.

Isabella's house was one of the very few which was not attacked, due to the fact that her son was a member of the invading army.

The Kuomintang Muslim General Ma Bufang waged war on the invading Tibetans during the Sino-Tibetan War with his Muslim army, and he repeatedly crushed Tibetan revolts during bloody battles in Qinghai provinces.

The decline continued under Umar's sons, and in 1893 Rabih az-Zubayr, leading an invading army from eastern Sudan, conquered Bornu.

* 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.

He was able to repel its invading army, and later even invaded Saxony.

: The next day, an invading army occupied the city and Nasreddin did not turn up for coffee as usual.

In his seat was a captain from the invading army.

But next year the large invading army was thoroughly defeated by Russians in the Battle of Molodi, forever eliminating the threat of the Ottoman-Crimean expansion into Russia.

However, Richard and his army were able to hold back the invading armies, and they executed any prisoners.

Baldwin de Redvers crossed over from Normandy to Wareham in August in an initial attempt to capture a port to receive the Empress Matilda's invading army, but Stephen's forces forced him to retreat into the south-west.

Prokofiev and Stravinsky restored their friendship, though Prokofiev did not particularly like Stravinsky's later works ; it has been suggested that his use of text from Stravinsky's A Symphony of Psalms to characterise the invading Teutonic knights in the film score for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) was intended as an attack on Stravinsky's musical idiom.

Subsequently the Polish winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature, Henryk Sienkiewicz, wrote several immensely popular novels set in conflicts between the Poles and predatory Teutonic Knights, rebelling Cossacks and invading Swedes.

The town was located on the site of a previous Polish settlement named Łebno which was later Germanised into Lewin and Lewinburg by the invading Teutonic Knights

One of Russia's two invading armies was almost totally destroyed, however, at the disastrous Battle of Tannenberg — the same site at which Lithuanian, Polish, and Moldovan troops had defeated the German Teutonic Knights in 1410.

* Torg-Storm Knights, deliberately larger-than-life heroes engaged in fighting the invasion of Earth, to prevent it being conquered by invading dimensions, largely corresponding with popular role-playing genres.

Players take the role of Storm Knights, deliberately larger-than-life heroes engaged in fighting the invasion of Earth, to prevent it being conquered by several invading dimensions ( called cosms ), each with its own separate reality ; cosms largely correspond with popular role-playing genres.

The players assume the role of " Storm Knights ", people from Earth and the various invading realms, who possess limited reality altering abilities, and who oppose the plans of the High Lords.

At first, the Mystic Knights thought the invading Northmen that captured King Conchobar had control of it.

The history of Casa Rocca Piccola goes back over 400 years to an era in which the Knights of St John, having successfully fought off the invading Turks in 1565, decided to build a prestigious city to rival other European capitals such as Paris and Venice.

The Knights hoped to defeat Poland and Lithuania separately and began by invading Greater Poland and Kuyavia, catching the Poles by surprise.

* Kevins-at age 39, he is leader of the Marion Knights and as such was forced to entrust his son Finn to Galahad's care, he supposedly sacrificed himself by staying in Hell at the end of the game to prevent Akkadias's forces from invading the surface, but was brought back to the surface world by Finn, who flew to Hell on Steiner to save him.

In the 15th century, Aztecs invading from the central highlands of Mexico conquered the Totonacs, and soon developed a taste for the vanilla pods.

Although Kent was the first part of the British mainland to be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD onwards, after the departure of the Romans, it was not until the late 7th century that the spelling Folcanstan appears.

The allied forces, with the Ditmarsians invading crossing the Elbe, easily conquered the Land of Hadeln, defeating Magnus and even driving him out of Hadeln.

Sometimes displays of military might are used ; invading forces may assemble and parade through the streets of conquered towns, attempting to demonstrate the futility of any further fighting.

Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasian " Dynastic Race " which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture ( Trigger, 1994 ).

Because Yan succeeded in keeping Shanxi uninvolved in most of the major battles between rival warlords that occurred in China during the 1910s and 1920s, Taiyuan was never taken from Yan by an invading army until the Japanese conquered it in 1937.

They are crved in three major styles that correspond to the styles of the ancient people who were conquered in 1500 by the invading Nakomse and integrated into a new Mossi society: IN the north masks are vertical planks with a round concave or convex face.

In history he actually is an extremely obscure figure about whom little can be said with certainty but that he ruled part of Iberia with opponents ruling the rest and was defeated and killed by invading Muslims who soon conquered most of the peninsula.

This region was conquered by the invading Turks in the 11th century ; also in the same period, Pompeiopolis became a metropolitan see until the 14th century, when this diocese was suppressed.

The invading armies very quickly defeated the Dutch States Army and conquered a large part of the Republic.

The latter, an invading tribe from either Mongolia or Kazakhstan that conquered and ruled Russia in the 9th century, is said to have adopted Judaism instead of Christianity or Islam, by their leaders ' preference.

As Irish scholarship was in its infancy at the time, it was believed by many scholars at the beginning of the 20th century that the Iverni were a remnant of Ireland's pre-Celtic " indigenous " inhabitants, who had been conquered by the invading Gaels.

In 1920 Balıkesir city was conquered by the invading Greeks but on 6 September in 1922, the Turkish army took back the city.

Abu Ubaidah, accepted the offer and rather than invading the districts of Emesa and Chalcis, he consolidated his rule in conquered land and captured Hama, Maarrat al-Nu ' man.

The Bamars or the residents of upper Burma, who had fled to Taungoo before the invading Shan, established a kingdom there under the reigns of Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung who conquered and unified most of modern Burma.

Not only did he defeat invading Ottoman forces but successfully counter-attacked and conquered both Corinth ( 1395 ) and Athens ( 1396 ).