On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

The Sultanate of Brunei, during its golden age from the 15th century to the 17th century, ruled a large part of northern Borneo.

The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.

Later in the same century, Croatia was so weak that its parliament authorized Ferdinand Habsburg to carve out large areas of Croatia and Slavonia adjacent to the Ottoman Empire for the creation of the Military Frontier ( Vojna Krajina, German Militaergrenze ) which would be ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters.

Many years have passed since the Capetian monarchs ruled a large part of Europe ; however, they still remain as kings, as well as other titles.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

The Ajuuraan Empire was a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over large parts of East Africa in the Middle Ages.

Subsequently, large portions of Kazakhstan were ruled in sequence by the Uigur and Kirgiz Kaganates.

* Thrintun: An ancient species that ruled a large empire, including the region of Known Space, through telepathic mind control about 1. 5 billion years ago.

Shortly after Adrian's accession the territory ruled by the papacy was invaded by Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and Adrian was compelled to seek the assistance of the Frankish king Charlemagne, who entered Italy with a large army.

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.

Several monarchies remain, and the Middle East is the only part of the world where several large states are ruled by monarchs with almost complete political control.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

He ruled a large kingdom that extended south into Yemen, via the queen of Sheba who accepted Solomon's prophethood and religion.

* Kingdom: area ruled by a King and Queen ( typically covering several U. S. states or Canadian provinces, and can be as large as countries or collections of countries ).

** Principality: area within a kingdom ruled by Prince and Princess ( large area sometimes comprising entire states ).

The bishop had withstood Maximus, who ruled for some years a large part of the western portion of the empire, though he never conquered Italy.

The position of the Holy Roman Emperor was mainly titular, but the emperors, from the House of Habsburg, also directly ruled a large portion of Imperial territory ( the Archduchy of Austria, as well as Kingdom of Bohemia and Kingdom of Hungary ).

It ruled large parts of Afghanistan and its capital, Kabul, as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until October 2001.

Subsequent historians, like Professor Linda Gugin, have called the process and the document itself " hopelessly flawed ", and legal expert James St. Claire has written that if the constitution had been adopted, large parts would probably have been ruled unconstitutional by the federal courts.

However, Woodward dismissed the possibility, as the rarity of the disease ruled it out from happening on a large scale, as werewolf cases were in medieval Europe.

As vassal of Otto II, Pandulf ruled a large bloc of territories that stretched as far north as Tuscany and as far south as the Gulf of Taranto.

Originally, high-resolution gratings were ruled using high-quality ruling engines whose construction was a large undertaking.

Blegen dubbed the remains of a large Mycenean palace excavated there the Palace of Nestor, after the Homeric ruler Nestor, who ruled over " Sandy Pylos " in the Iliad.

It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries.

In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

Lithuania was ruled during the early 13th century by a number of dukes and princes presiding over various fiefdoms and tribes.

Some astrologers believe that each number from 0 to 9 is ruled by a celestial body in our solar system.

It is generally assumed that all of those listed ruled in Rheged, but only three of their number can be verified from external sources:

However, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that certain ballot access requirements, such as filing fees and submitting a certain number of valid petition signatures do not constitute additional qualifications and thus few Constitutional restrictions exist as to how harsh ballot access laws can be.

Since its passage, several legal challenges have been brought against the act, and Federal courts have ruled that a number of provisions are unconstitutional.

Greyhounds from which samples cannot be obtained for a certain number of consecutive races are subject to being ruled off the track.

In 1575 Byrd and Tallis were jointly granted a patent for the printing of music and ruled music paper for 21 years, one of a number of patents issued by the Crown for the printing of books on various subjects.

Æthelbald was one of a number of strong Mercian kings who ruled from the mid-seventh century to the early ninth, and it was not until the reign of Egbert of Wessex in the ninth century that Mercian power began to wane.

Alexander Orakhelashvili cites a number cases in which international tribunals have ruled that international organizations, includuing the Security Council, are bound by general international law.

* Seleucid king Antiochus I's eldest son Seleucus, who has ruled in the east of the kingdom as viceroy for a number of years, is put to death by his father on the charge of rebellion.

Demetrius II ( Greek: Δημήτριος Β ` died 125 BC ), called Nicator ( Greek: " Νικάτωρ ", i. e. " Victor "), was one of the sons of Demetrius I Soter, brother of Antiochus VII Sidetes and his mother could have been Laodice V. He ruled the Seleucid Empire for two periods, separated by a number of years of captivity in Hyrcania in Parthia.

The court also ruled the pre-marked ballots were invalid, but that the number of invalid votes was not sufficient to overturn the election results.

In his essay on number, for example, Zerzan starts by contrasting the " civilized " emphasis on counting and measuring with a " primitive " emphasis on sharing, citing Dorothy Lee's work on the Trobriand Islanders in support, before constructing a narrative of the rise of number through cumulative stages of state domination, starting with the desire of Egyptian kings to measure what they ruled.

Later, in Samson v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that reasonable suspicion is not even necessary: " The California Legislature has concluded that, given the number of inmates the State paroles and its high recidivism rate, a requirement that searches be based on individualized suspicion would undermine the State's ability to effectively supervise parolees and protect the public from criminal acts by reoffenders.

27 deaths were attributed to Pinto fires ( the same number of deaths attributed to a Pinto transmission problem ) and in 1974 the NHTSA ruled that the Pinto had no " recallable " problem.

A number of kings such as Kodai Kerala Varma, Udaya Martanda Varma ( 1175 – 1195 ), Vira Rama Kerala Varma, Ravi Kerala Varma, Ravivarma Kulasekhara ( 1299 – 1314 ), Vira Marthanda Varma ruled over the kingdom.

That southern Italy was reconquered and ruled by a Byzantine governor from about 970 to 1071 explains the relatively large number of small and rustic Middle Byzantine-style churches found there, including the Cattolica in Stilo and S. Marco in Rossano.

During the reign of Queen Mary I of England ( 1553 – 58 ), a number of Protestant scholars fled from England to Geneva in Switzerland, which was then ruled as a republic in which John Calvin and, later, Theodore Beza provided the primary spiritual and theological leadership.

The term refers to the division of the Balkan peninsula, formerly ruled almost entirely by the Ottoman Empire, into a number of smaller states between 1817 and 1912.

After Alyeska ruled that all packages had to be sealed in the presence of a security guard, the number of packages being sent from camps dropped by 75 percent.

The Kurdish King and his uncles ruled north Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Egypt for a short period .< ref name =" Minorsky "> A number of contemporary sources make note of this.