By the beginning of the 8th century, these kingdoms had either been conquered by Nicene neighbors ( Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians ) or their rulers had accepted Nicene Christianity ( Visigoths, Lombards ).

By the 8th – 7th century BC Assyrian cuneiform tablets mention the exploitation of the " copper of the mountains " and this may refer to " natural " brass.

By the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse.

By the late 8th century BC the territory of Israel was the most densely settled in the entire Levant, with a population of about 350, 000.

By the 8th century these city-states tended to have rulers that had accepted Islam.

By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794.

By 2007 the now-Russian force, now designated the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the Moscow Military District had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor Rifle Brigade and a surface-to-air missile regiment.

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea, but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction — either Trajan or ' Amr ibn al -' As, or Omar the Great.

By the second half of the 8th century he was already regarded as an embodiment of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara.

By 1969, at the end of the 1960s the New York Mets won the World Series in only the 8th year of the team's existence.

By size, it is the 8th largest state in Germany, and by population, the 10th largest.

By the 8th century the Frankish dominion was firmly established in western Germany and northern Gaul.

By the middle of the 8th century, the Franks had assumed political control of the region and the mainland of Veneto became part of the Carolingian Empire.

By the 8th century, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.

By the end of the 8th century, the Low Countries formed a part of Francia and the Merovingians were replaced by the Carolingian dynasty.

By the 8th century the Frankish dominion was firmly established in western Germany and northern Gaul.

By the 8th century, the terms Cārvāka, Lokāyata, and Bārhaspatya were used interchangeably to signify materialism.

By the 8th century, the rulers of Laigin had split into two dynasties:

By the time it was attested for in general use in the 8th century BC it was already divided into a western and eastern variety, from which the Etruscan / Latin alphabets and the later Greek alphabet came respectively.

By the 8th century the whole space was surrounded by Christian churches taking the place of the abandoned and ruined temples.

By the end of the war, the US Fifth Army and British 8th Army had built over 3, 000 Bailey bridges in Sicily and Italy alone, totaling over of bridge, at an average length of.

By 1593, John, 8th Lord Maxwell was repairing the castle again, building up the gatehouse for defence against the Johnstones of Annandale, with whom the Maxwells were feuding.

By the end of 8th century, the Slavic tribes established the first organised states in Central and Eastern Europe.

" In the 8th edition ( 1856 ), this is still its " most extended sense "; " in a more limited sense " it is defined in the same words as those quoted above from the 5th edition ; but the writer adds, " By courtesy this title is generally accorded to all persons above the rank of common tradesmen when their manners are indicative of a certain amount of refinement and intelligence.

By the 9th century, eunuch singers were well-known ( not least in the choir of Hagia Sophia ), and remained so until the sack of Constantinople by the Western forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

By the 9th century, the Gaels of Dál Riata ( Dalriada ) were subject to the kings of Fortriu of the family of Constantín mac Fergusa ( Constantine son of Fergus ).

By the 9th century BC, the Kingdom of Israel, once united under King Solomon, was divided into the northern Kingdom of Israel and southern Kingdom of Judah, which retained the historic seat of government and focus of the Israelite religion at the Temple in Jerusalem.

By 4 July, the Australian 9th Division had entered the line in the north, and on 9 July Indian 5th Infantry Brigade also returned taking over the Ruweisat position.

By the 9th century AD the city of Shiraz was known to produce some of the finest wines in the Middle East.

By the 9th century Taoist monks or alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality had serendipitously stumbled upon gunpowder.

By the 9th century the number of hadiths had grown exponentially.

By the 9th century public libraries started to appear in many Islamic cities.

" By the middle of the 9th century, however, a form of neumatic notation began to develop in monasteries in Europe as a mnemonic device for Gregorian chant, using symbols known as neumes ; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the Musica disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme, from about 850.

By these same routes, Islam made its way south into West Africa after the 9th century AD.

By about 95 AD this was replaced by a larger wooden fort built by the 9th Cohort of Batavians, a mixed infantry-cavalry unit of about 1000 men.

By the 9th century BCE the Assyrians made a habit of regularly deporting thousands of restless subjects to other lands.

By the late 9th and early 10th centuries, Bulgaria extended to Epirus and Thessaly in the south, Bosnia in the west and controlled all of present-day Romania and eastern Hungary to the north.

By the 9th century most inhabitants north of Lille spoke a dialect of Middle Dutch, while the inhabitants to the south spoke a variety of Romance dialects.

By the 10th century BCE a rudimentary state had emerged in the north-central highlands, and in the 9th century this became a kingdom.

By the time the 508th attacked, troops of the 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion were arriving.

By the 9th century the Gaels had been joined by Norse Vikings who founded towns such as Cork, Waterford and Limerick, for the most part incorporated into a maritime empire by the Dynasty of Ivar, who periodically would threaten Munster with conquest in the next century.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension in Christian art had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

By the 9th century, the legendary King Arthur had become identified as the leader of the victorious British force at Mons Badonicus.

By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.

By the late 9th century, Danish invasions prompted at least a partial reoccupation of London by the Saxons ; the bridge may have been rebuilt around 990 under the Saxon king Æthelred the Unready, to hasten Saxon troop movements against Sweyn Forkbeard, father of Cnut.

By 1960, the city's growth to the south prompted the building of South Grove Elementary ( later Intermediate ) at the 800 block of South 9th Avenue.

By the 9th century there was already a little church in the same location as the current Little Green Church ( Groen Kerkje ) which, according to legend, was dedicated by Willibrord.