The 12th century saw the Normans ( who had conquered England and Wales in the eleventh century ) invade Ireland.

England had conquered Wales in the 12th century and was then united with Scotland in the early 18th century to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain.

Edwin, who accepted Christianity in 627, soon grew to become the most powerful king in England: he was recognised as Bretwalda and conquered the Isle of Man and Gwynedd in northern Wales.

Through the 1267 Treaty of Montgomery, he officially obtained land he had conquered in the Four Cantrefs of Perfeddwlad and was recognised in his title of Prince of Wales.

However, following the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century, English law came to be practised in the parts of Wales conquered by the Normans ( the Welsh Marches ).

In 1283 the English, led by Prince Edward, with the biggest army brought together in England since the 11th century, conquered the remainder of Wales, then organised as the Principality of Wales, which was united with the English crown by the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284.

The Statute of Rhuddlan was issued from Rhuddlan Castle in North Wales, one of the ' iron ring ' of fortresses built by Edward I, to control his newly conquered lands.

The Irish, especially the Laighin, are known to have colonized and / or conquered much of northern Wales in the mid-4th to early 5th centuries.

In The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan, written in the late 12th century, the family asserted its rights as the senior line of descendants from Rhodri the Great who had conquered most of Wales during his lifetime.

Beaumaris was originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr (" Port of the Vikings "), but the town itself began its development in 1295 when Edward I of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast ( others include Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech ).

In 1282 Criccieth Castle became part of a ring of castles surrounding Edward I of England | Edward I's newly conquered territories in Wales.

Fitzhamon enlarged and strengthened Bristol castle and in the latter years of the 11th century conquered and subdued much of south and west Wales.

The mines were exploited by the Romans as they conquered Roman Britain: over the years, a great many Roman artifacts have been found in the mine including a hoard of thirty first and second century silver coins of Roman currency found in 1965 by some schoolboys, now conserved at the National Museum of Wales.

His son Canute never properly conquered or controlled Scotland or Wales, but he appears to have had some authority in Cornwall, for in 1027 his counsellor Lyfing ( already bishop of Crediton ) was appointed as bishop of Cornwall ( St Germans ), beginning the merger which would later form the See of Exeter.

In The History of Gruffydd ap Cynan, written in the late 12th century, the family asserted its rights as the senior line of descendants from Rhodri the Great who had conquered most of Wales during his lifetime.

At the Treaty of Montgomery between England and Wales in 1267 Llywelyn was granted the title " Prince of Wales " for his heirs and successors and allowed to keep the lands he had conquered as well as the homage of lesser Welsh princes in return for his own homage to the King of England and payment of a substantial fee.

The first period, from 1272 – 90 consisted of the enactment of Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 1275 ) and the Statute of Gloucester ( 1278 ), and the incorporation of recently conquered Wales into the realm.

* R. A. Griffiths, Conquerors and conquered in medieval Wales ( 1994 )

With victory over Mexico Northerners attempted in the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from conquered territories ; it never passed.

Sympathizing with the plight of the Uyghurs, whose lands were conquered by the Qing dynasty, Ahmad Shah attempted to rally neighboring Muslim nations to check Qing expansion.

Various princes and Seljuk rulers attempted to rule parts of the country until the Shah Muhammad II of the Khwarezmid Empire conquered all of Persia in 1205.

Greek and Roman religion were essentially local in character ; the Roman Empire attempted to unite its disparate territories by inculcating an ideal of Roman piety, and by a syncretistic identifying of the gods of conquered territories with the Greek and Roman pantheon.

For example, when Shu ( state )' s kings were conquered by Qin ( state ), its Kaiming rulers became Marquises such as Marquis Hui of Shu who attempted a rebellion against Qin overlords in BCE 301.

To date, more than 100 fans, or about a half of the people who have attempted the challenge, have conquered the burger and earned a commemorative t-shirt.

During this protest Markievicz handed out leaflets, erected great masts: Dear land thou art not conquered yet., participated in stone throwing at pictures of the King and Queen and attempted to burn the giant British flag taken from Leinster House, eventually succeeding, but then seeing James McArdle imprisoned for one month for the incident, despite the Countess testifing in court that she was responsible.

Even the Persians, who conquered Anatolia in the 6th century BC, and attempted to rule the area by dividing it into satrapies, were unable to cope with constant uprisings and turmoil.

The Prussians attempted to oust Polish or Masovian forces from Sudovia and Culmerland ( or Chełmno Land ), which by now was partially conquered, devastated and almost totally depopulated.

The Inca attempted to combine their deities with conquered ones in ways that raised the status of their own.

The Hasankeyf branch conquered Diyarbakır in 1198 and moved here, but was demolished by the Ayyubids in 1231 when it attempted to form an alliance with the Seljuqs.

Selene became critical in the X-Men's attempt to stop Kulan Gath, after he conquered New York City with a reality-altering spell though she ultimately attempted to doublecross the X-Men in order to steal Gath's talisman of power.

The latter office nearly cost him his life ; a murderer attempted to kill him, and had already touched his breast with his dagger when, conquered by the resolute calmness of the prelate, he threw away the weapon and fell at his feet, asking forgiveness.

Furthermore, the Abbasids had a great hatred for the customs, culture, and traditions of their conquered subjects, and they attempted to impose their way of life with brutal force.

On a Wednesday evening, immediately after the Martians conquered London and the surrounding areas, a large number of refugees attempted to escape by sea from Tillingham Bay on the Essex coast.

Also, the censors were in charge of the leasing out of conquered land for public use and auction.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

where he conquered Sindh in 519 BC and constituted it as his 20th Satrapy and made use of the ocean there.

Rocket technology first became known to Europeans following its use by the Mongols Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan when they conquered parts of Russia, Eastern, and Central Europe.

Once conquered, Japan would use China's manpower for the conquest of all Asia.

French Canadians may use the term " War of Conquest " ( Guerre de la Conquête ), since it is the war in which New France was conquered by the British and became part of the British Empire.

Jacques Gernet claims that the Zhou dynasty, which conquered the Shang, made more use of the chariot than did the Shang and " invented a new kind of harness with four horses abreast ".

After the Manchu-founded Qing Dynasty conquered the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court decided to continue to use the Ming administrative system to rule over former Ming lands, without applying it to other domains within the Qing Dynasty, namely Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet.

Industry policy forbade the use of pre-recorded programs ; adapting the advanced tape-recording brought back from conquered Germany, ABC attracted some big-name stars who wanted freedom from rigid schedules, among them Bing Crosby.

In the last two decades of the 19th century, after the forces of Leopold II of Belgium conquered the region and started exploiting it commercially, Bangi came into wider use.

* Soon after the State of Qin has conquered the State of Shu ( in modern-day Sichuan province ), they employ the Shu engineer Bi Ling to create the Guanxian irrigation system, which will eventually provide for over five million people in an area of 40 to, still in use today.

" According to Tony Cummings, " Despite the use of a different arranger at each session Solomon conquered all.

English monarchs continued to use the title " Lord of Ireland " to refer to their position of conquered lands on the island of Ireland.

Hyrcanus conquered Transjordan, Samaria, Galilee, and Idumea ( also known as Edom ), and forced Idumeans to convert to Judaism: " Hyrcanus ... subdued all the Idumeans ; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews ; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, ( 25 ) and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living ; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews.

Until 1279, the Chinese were able to use their naval power to defend against the Jin to the north, until the Mongols finally conquered all of China.

Although intended to be usable at text sizes, it represents the early period of the designer's career when interletter spacing was yet to be conquered, so has found use primarily in advertising.

However, they were the main armament of the Mongol armies that conquered much of Asia and Europe ; their short profile compared to longer bows made them ideal for horseback use.

This is a giant step backwards and as infants grow, they may incorrectly and inconsistently use sounds that they had already conquered in the early babbling stages.

The House of Kotromanić reigned until 1463 when the Ottomans conquered the region, ceasing then the use of the royal coat of arms in Bosnia.

In just about any area that fell under the crown's dominion, the term was made use of, and anyone of mixed Caucasian and conquered races could be properly described as being half-caste.

The House of Kotromanić reigned until 1463 when the Ottomans conquered the region, ceasing then the use of the royal coat of arms in Bosnia.

Kotor was conquered by Venetia and the Dubrovnik Republic wanted to use Genoa to finally destroy its greatest adversary, the City of Kotor.

He was the first poet we know of to use a historical subject – his Fall of Miletus, produced in 493-2, chronicled the fate of the town of Miletus after it was conquered by the Persians.