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by and conquering
Jainism recommends conquering anger by forgiveness, pride ( ego ) by humility, deceit by straight-forwardness and greed by contentment.
He resumed his conquest in 1117 by conquering Fitero, Corella, Cintruénigo, Murchante, Monteagudo, and Cascante.
According to Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane, daughter of Liparus ( the eponym of the island Lipara, whom Aeolus assisted in conquering lands above Surrentum, Italy ).
Italy sought to improve its position in Africa by conquering Ethiopia, which would join its two territories.
Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.
Rumiñahui fell back to Quito, and, while in pursuit of the Inca army, Benalcázar encountered another, quite sizable, conquering party led by Guatemalan Governor Pedro de Alvarado.
They followed up by a campaign which swept the allies to the east bank of the Rhine and left the French, by the beginning of 1795, conquering Holland itself.
It did not prevent the German army from conquering Poland in a matter of weeks with its innovative Blitzkrieg tactics and helped by the Soviet Union's attack on Poland.
Indeed, the breadth of his vision gave rise to his grand strategy of conquering Rome by opening a northern front and subduing allied city-states on the peninsula rather than by attacking Rome directly.
Out of this mix developed the Berber people, whose language and culture, although pushed from coastal areas by conquering and colonizing Carthaginians, Romans, and Byzantines, dominated most of the land until the spread of Islam and the coming of the Arabs.
Jainism recommends conquering anger by forgiveness, pride ( ego ) by humility, deceit by straight-forwardness, and greed by contentment.
Jinas are spiritually advanced human beings who rediscovered the dharma, became fully liberated from the bondages of karma by conquering attachments and aversions, and taught the spiritual path to benefit all living beings.
During World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to " Jakarta " ( short form of Jayakarta ) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.
Henry had inherited significant territories along the Atlantic seaboard — Anjou, Normandy and England — and expanded his empire by conquering Brittany.
Sviatoslav I of Kiev defeated them in 965 by conquering the Khazar fortress of Sarkel.
The Khitay conquest of Central Asia can thus be seen as an internecine struggle within the Karluk nomadic tribe, played out as dynastic conflict between the conquering Buddhist Khitay elites and the defending Kara-Khanid princes, resulting in the subjugation of the latter by the former, and in the subjugation of the Muslim Karluks by their Nestorian / Buddhist kin.

by and annexing
Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.
In 1651, the Dutch, reinvigorated by the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, established a fort at present-day New Castle, and in 1655 they conquered the New Sweden colony, annexing it into the Dutch New Netherland.
During his long reign, Ivan the Terrible nearly doubled the already large Russian territory by annexing the three Tatar khanates ( parts of disintegrated Golden Horde ): Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga River, and Sibirean Khanate in South Western Siberia.
The Nazis also spoke of enlarging the then-established Greater German Reich into a " Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation " ( Grossgermanisches Reich Deutscher Nation ) by gradually annexing all the historically Germanic countries and regions of Europe ( Flanders, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc.
On 20 July 1974, the TAF launched an invasion of Cyprus on the pretext of a coup which had been staged by the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention of annexing the island to Greece, but the invasion ended up with Turkey occupying a considerable area on the north part of it and establishing a government on it that only Turkey recognizes.
As a consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the Soviet Union advanced its borders westward by invading Poland and Finland in 1939, and annexing the Baltic States and Bessarabia in 1940.
Other demands included keeping such territorial gains as Austria and the Sudetenland within the Reich, giving autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine, and even expansion of the current wartime borders of Germany in the south by annexing Tyrol as far as Bolzano and Merano.
Note that Elyton has long been a part of Birmingham itself, since Birmingham was established by the merger of three towns, and the city has a long history of annexing its neighboring towns and villages, including North Birmingham.
This hostility emerged from three sources: grievances at British violations of American sovereignty, restriction of American trade by Britain, and an American desire to gain territory by invading and annexing the poorly-defended British North American colonies.
Because of encroaching annexations by the City of Frostproof, the town is exploring the possibility of annexing Crooked Lake and nearby shores which would increase the size of the town to.
In 1950, the state legislature blocked Atlanta from annexing the community, which remained rural until the Interstate Highway System was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
Some saw this as a method for Brickman to get his rezoning by annexing to Lake Zurich and later disconnecting to form a separate village.
The city has expanded to the north by annexing several sizable suburbs.
It still has only three north and south streets ( Main, Regier, and Johnson ); and with the exception of about that was added at the south end by annexing Berean Academy, it is still 1 / 4 mile wide and 1 / 2 mile long.
In the wake of the annexation vote, Indian Hills began exerting its political autonomy by using a lawsuit to shut down a used car lot on Brownsboro Road, and then annexing the land and encouraging its redevelopment as residences.
The City of Grand Rapids started annexing portions of the township and by 1891 had annexed a square mile () of the city from Division to Clyde Park and from Hall to Burton.
A ' scare ' sheet was sent weeks before the vote about the water then being used by the township and how they should be annexing themselves with Grand Rapids instead.
In 1950, mayor Ernie Cragin of Las Vegas, looking to fund an ambitious building agenda and pay down the city's rising debt, sought to expand the city's tax base by annexing the Las Vegas Strip.
A group of casino executives, led by Gus Greenbaum of the Flamingo, lobbied the county commissioners for township status, which would prevent the city from annexing the land without the commission's approval.
Efforts by the town government to avoid annexing properties whose owners did not wish to be brought within the town boundaries resulted in a checkerboard pattern of incorporated and unincorporated properties, one of the issues to be resolved in the town's Comprehensive Plan.
In the 1990s, the city expanded eastward by annexing Boger City, a formerly independent town.
In 2004, the remaining villagers of Cheshire and residents of the surrounding area took steps to expand the village limits by annexing properties within about a mile north and west of the previous village limits.
The question of annexing Burch Creek to Ogden was raised many times, but each time the proposal was rejected by a majority of the people.

by and emirate
The Umayyad Caliphate, with origin in Hejaz, Arabian peninsula or Emirate was overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate or Emirate ( second Arab dynasty ), some of the remaining Umayyad leaders escaped to Castile and declared Córdoba an independent emirate.
Clerical and secular scholars from Europe turned their eyes to Iberian Peninsula as the arts and sciences prospered in an early Spanish " renaissance " under the patronage of Alfonso X, who was continuing the tradition of ( relatively ) enlightened and tolerant convivencia established by the Muslim emirate several centuries earlier.
* In the United Arab Emirates, a municipality is part of an emirate, and is defined by the law of the specific emirates.
In addition, the Turkic population of Osman's emirate were constantly reinforced by a flood of refugees, fleeing from the Mongols.
Unfortunately for the kingfisher, a U. N. plan to protect the mangroves as a biological reserve was blatantly ignored by the emirate of Sharjah, which allowed the dredging of a channel that bisects the wetland and construction of an adjacent concrete walkway.
During that period Christian kingdoms gradually took control over the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim kingdoms and with the fall of the Granadian emirate, the entire Iberian Peninsula was brought under Christian rule, while native Mozarabic Christian practices held for centuries in Muslim-ruled territory were first suppressed as early as 1080, by Alfonso VI of Castile, as Roman-rite Christian kingdoms advanced south.
With an area of just 260 square kilometres ( 100 sq mi ), Ajman is the smallest emirate by area.
* in present Uzbekistan, the main khanate, named after its capital Buchara, was founded in 1500 and restyled emirate in 1753 ( after three Persian governors since 1747 ); the Ferghana ( valley's ) khanate broke way from it by 1694 and became known as the Khanate of Kokand after its capital Kokand from its establishment in 1732 ; the khanate of Khwarezm, dating from c. 1500, became the Khanate of Khiva in 1804 but fell soon under Russian protectorate ; Karakalpakstan had its own rulers ( khans?
The emirate is located south east of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi.
** The Taganit confederation's emirate ( founded by Idaw ` Ish dynasty ), since 1905 under French protectorate.
An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Muslim monarch styled emir.
The city was later taken under the Muslim emirate of Al-Hakam I in 802 by Amrus ibn Yusuf al-Muwalad.
The American historian, Richard Bulliet, in a work based on the quantitative use of the onomastic data as furnished by scholarly biographical dictionaries, concluded that it was only in the 10th century when the Andalusi emirate was firmly established and developed into the greatest power of the western Mediterranean under Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III, that the numerical ratio of Muslims and Christians in Al-Andalus was reversed in favour of the former.
From 1145 to 1147 the region of Arcos and Jerez was briefly an emirate under dependency of Granada, led by Abu ' l-Qasim Ahyal.
Fueled by oil, the country's economy was more like that of an Arabian emirate than a Central African nation.
The emirate was ruled until his death by Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mu ' alla, who was a member of the UAE's Supreme Council since 1981.
The heraldic device has been most recently altered in 2002, when the emirate was declared a kingdom by Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa.
The Abu Ulayan dynasty from the Banu Tamim tribe established the emirate of Buraydah in the late 16th century by its leader, Rashid Al Duraiby.
The emirate was later captured by Muhanna Salih Abalkhail, the leader of the Abalkhail dynasty.
Aviation throughout each emirate is individually controlled by different governing bodies as each emirate sees fit.
Individually, each emirate has its own controlling body, In the emirate of Dubai, airports are governed by the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, the Abu Dhabi International Airport ( ADIA ) is ran by the Abu Dhabi Airport Company ( ADAC ).

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