From the very early stages of his reign, Abd ar-Rahman showed a firm resolve to quash the rebels of Al-Andalus, consolidate centralized power, and reestablish internal order within the emirate.

From the outset of his reign, he stressed the reality of his autocracy.

From the start of Elizabeth's reign, it was expected that she would marry and the question arose to whom.

From well before his reign, Hadrian displayed a keen interest in architecture, but it seems that his eagerness was not always well received.

From its modest beginnings in the 14th-century principality of Moscow, Russia had become the largest state in the world by Peter's reign.

From Stephen V through the 10th and 11th centuries, the historical notes are extremely abbreviated, usually with only the pope's origin and reign duration.

From Amanullah until the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah ( 1933 – 1973 ) and Mohammed Daoud Khan ( 1973 – 1978 ) the Jirga was recognized as a common meeting of regional Pashtun leaders.

From the reign of Clotaire II and Dagobert I survive many examples of the royal position as the supreme justice and final arbiter.

From 1795 to 1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers, a verse tragedy set during the reign of King Henry III of England when Englishmen of the north country were in conflict with Scottish rovers.

From the outset of the reign of Charles the Bald, the integrity of Anjou was seriously menaced by a twofold danger: from Brittany ( on the west side boundary ) and from Normandy ( on the north side boundary ).

From the reign of Emperor Wu onward, the Chinese court officially sponsored Confucianism in education and court politics, synthesized with the cosmology of later scholars such as Dong Zhongshu.

From King Ping's reign onwards, the Zhou kings ruled in name only, with true power lying in the hands of regional nobles.

From 1428, Henry's tutor was Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, whose father had been instrumental in the opposition to Richard II's reign.

From the 2007 season onwards the Seven Network returned as the official V8 Supercars broadcaster, after Network Ten had shown the series for almost a decade after taking the rights from Seven in 1997, ending Seven's 35 year reign as the official broadcaster of V8 Supercars.

From the reign of king Manuel I, the title of Duke of Beja was given to the second son of the monarch.

From the beginning of his reign, Alfonso employed Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars at his court, primarily for the purpose of translating books from Arabic and Hebrew into Latin and Castilian, although he always insisted in supervising personally the translations.

From the time of his election as pope to the fall of Napoleon in 1815, Pius VII's reign was completely taken up in dealing with France.

From the time the Nephites arrived in America to the reign of King Mosiah II ( c. 592 – 91 BC ), the Nephites were ruled by kings.

From now the former Brabant and Limburg areas were placed under the reign of the generality as well as Zeeuws-Vlaanderen which had been taken from Flanders.

From the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I ( 1115 – 1077 ), Adad had a double sanctuary in Assur which he shared with Anu.

From the early part of the 17th century until after the civil wars, Mortlake was celebrated for the manufacture of tapestry, founded during the reign of James I-VI at the Mortlake Tapestry Works.

From the reign of Ramesses II.

From the Jian ' an reign period ( 196-220 CE ) onward, the five-character line became a focus for innovations in style and theme.

From this writer we learn that Saint Swithun was born in the reign of Egbert of Wessex, and was ordained priest by Helmstan, bishop of Winchester ( 838-c. 852 ).

From 26 until 36 CE, Emperor Guangwu had to wage war against other regional warlords who claimed the title of emperor ; when these warlords were defeated, China reunified under the Han.

From an initial investment of $1,200 in 1943, it has grown, with no additional capital investment, to a present value estimated by some as exceeding $10,000,000 ( we don't disclose financial figures to the public ).

From there she negotiated with the emperor for the safety of family members left in the capital, while protesting her sons ' innocence of hostile actions ; under the falsehood of making a vesperal visit to worship at the church, she deliberately excluded the grandson of Botaneiates and his loyal tutor, met with Alexios and Isaac and fled for the forum of Constantine.

From Arkona, Absalon proceeded by sea to Charenza, in the midst of Rügen, the political capital of the Wends and an all but impregnable stronghold.

From the establishment of the Tokugawa bakufus headquarters at Edo, although Kyoto remained the formal capital of the country the de facto capital was now Edo ; it was the center of political power.

From 1981 onwards, a newly-constructed set of high-speed LGV ( Lignes à Grande Vitesse ) lines linked France's most populous areas with the capital, starting with Paris-Lyon.

From August until March 1542 he remained in Mozambique, having reached Goa, then capital of Portuguese India's on 6 May 1542, and also visiting Vasai.

From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.

From Cotonou, the legionnaires marched to seize Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

From 1710 to 1713, the Afghan forces defeated several large and powerful Persian armies that were dispatched from Isfahan ( capital of the Safavids ), which included Qizilbash and Georgian troops.

From Mount Emei in Sichuan, a Daoist hermit, a nun known as a " numinous old woman " and " holy physician "— who Temple says was associated with the ' school of the ancient immortals ' and thus most likely specialized in ' internal alchemy '— introduced the technique of inoculation to the capital.

From labor services, as well as ownership of land and capital.

From there, Ibn Battuta travelled southwest along a river he believed to be the Nile ( it was actually the river Niger ), until he reached the capital of the Mali Empire.

From 1919 to 1923, Limburg was the “ capital ” of a short-lived state called Free State Bottleneck ( or Freistaat Flaschenhals in German ) because it was the nearest unoccupied town to the Weimar Republic.

From his initial capital Ambohimanga, and later from the Rova of Antananarivo, this Merina king rapidly expanded his rule over neighboring principalities.

From its capital in Kumbi Saleh on the edge of the desert, the empire expanded throughout southeastern Mauritania, southwestern Mali, and northern Senegal.

From the capital they ruled over an empire encompassing large parts of present-day Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From that time lanterns were used to light mosques and houses throughout the capital city of Cairo.

From his new capital, King Alfonso began a series of campaigns to establish control over all the lands north of the Douro.

From 2004 onward economic growth picked up significantly ; both employment and capital formation increased.

From this same 10th century on, Compostela became a politically relevant site and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen, and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, so Compostela becoming capital of the Kingdom of Galicia.

From 1995 to 2009 in Brisbane the capital of Queensland, a number of old buildings and dilapidated back alleys were used as squats within the vicinity of Brisbane City's Queen Street Mall.

From 1282 the town was part of the Serbian realm and its capital city since 1346.

From 972 to 992, it was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire.

From May 1682, when Louis XIV moved the court and government permanently to Versailles, until his death in September 1715, Versailles was the unofficial capital of the kingdom of France.