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He twice besieged Constantinople, in 941 and 944, and in spite of part of his fleet being destroyed by Greek fire, concluded with the Emperor a favourable treaty whose text is preserved in the chronicle.
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twice and besieged
In retaliation, Saladin twice besieged Kerak, Raynald's fortress in Oultrejordain, in 1183 and 1184.
The town was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars.
During the civil wars of the 17th century the city played a pivotal role, besieged by Oliver Cromwell in 1651 and twice by the Williamites in the 1690s.
In the 1st century BC Mutina was besieged twice.
Between 994 and 996 the castle was besieged unsuccessfully twice more.
Despite these defences, Doetinchem was besieged many times and during the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) was besieged and conquered twice.
During the English Civil War it was a Royalist stronghold and was besieged twice, in 1643 and again in 1646.
During this period, from the recall of the legions until the Norman conquest, Rochester was sacked at least twice and besieged on another occasion.
Kaloyan besieged Adrianople twice, but failed to take the city because of the withdrawal of his Cuman cavalry, and the determined advance of the new Latin emperor, Baldwin I's brother Henry of Flanders.
During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces.
During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
The castle became a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War, and was besieged twice before its surrender to Cromwell's forces in 1646.
The castle was twice besieged in the 17th century and one of the towers still shows the scars of the artillery of Patrick Sarsfield, who tried unsuccessfully to take it.
During the Irish Confederate Wars the castle was besieged twice.
The fort was besieged twice during the American Revolutionary War, once in 1777 and again in 1782.
In the 1640s, the city was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars, in 1646 and 1649.
The castle was besieged twice, in 1216 and 1217, during the dispute between King John, rebel barons, and the French prince.
After twice pardoning him, the king's patience became exhausted, and he besieged the duke's chateau at Carlat and imprisoned him.
Skram now retired from active service, but was twice ( 1565 – 1568 ) unsuccessfully besieged by the Swedes in his castle of Laholm.
During the Great Northern War, Tönning was besieged twice.
Lathom is the location of Lathom House built in the Middle Ages, twice besieged during the English Civil War and subsequently bought by Sir Thomas Bootle who restored the ancient mansion.
Borthwick Castle was visited twice by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563 and 1567, when she was besieged inside while under the protection of 6th Lord Borthwick.
twice and Constantinople
The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, twice visited Constantinople.
Venice remained closely associated with Constantinople, being twice granted trading privileges in the Eastern Roman Empire, through the so-called Golden Bulls or ' chrysobulls ' in return for aiding the Eastern Empire to resist Norman and Turkish incursions.
* Ignatius of Constantinople ( 799 – 877 ): twice Patriarch of Constantinople during troubled political times and 867 – 877.
Before his selection as pope, he had visited Constantinople twice.
During the following years Dandolo twice went as ambassador to King William II of Sicily, and then in 1183 returned to Constantinople to negotiate the restoration of the Venetian quarter in the city.
The Church became subordinate within the Patriarchate of Constantinople, twice during the periods of Byzantine ( 1018 – 1185 ) and Ottoman ( 1396 – 1878 ) domination.
He had married twice, firstly in Constantinople ca 1318 or 1318 to a Kantakouzene ( died ca 1330 ), without issue, and secondly in 1330 – 1332, Theodora Syrgiannaina ( died 1347 / 1349 ), sister of the pinkernes (" cupbearer ") Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos, with whom he fathered two children.
In 449 Orestes was sent by Attila twice to Constantinople as envoy to Emperor Valentinian III.
He was also administrator of the archdiocese of Naples, and was granted several bishoprics ; Farnese was twice the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, from 1546-1550 and 1554 ?- 1565.
Over the next fifty years, under the aggressive Umayyads caliphs, the Muslims would launch repeated raids into still-Byzantine Asia Minor, twice threaten the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, with conquest, and outright conquer the Byzantine Exarchate of Africa.
twice and 944
He won the German Porsche 944 Turbo Cup twice, in 1988 and 1989, before winning the German Porsche Carrera Cup in 1991.
twice and spite
" in spite of uttering this phrase only twice in the entire book.
He is the main sponsor of FK Austria Vienna, which, in spite of a budget three times larger than that of its strongest competitors and the fact that Stronach is at the same time the president of the Austrian Bundesliga, has failed to completely dominate the league, winning the Austrian Championship only twice since the club was taken over by Stronach in 1999.
On 12 May 1917 near Roeux, France, Private Dresser, in spite of having been twice wounded on the way and suffering great pain, succeeded in conveying an important message from battalion headquarters to the front line trenches, which he eventually reached in an exhausted condition.
twice and part
They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.
In contrast, one may need to perform less work to make part A be twice as fast.
The epilogue, in which Judah is assigned a leadership role twice, implies pro-Judah political leanings on the part of the author.
* Personal identity number ( twice, once in the upper part and once below )
He served twice as Roman Consul and Roman Censor, and in 218 BC he took part in the embassy to Carthage.
During the Second World War, Finland fought twice against the Soviet Union and defended its independence, though in the process it in the 1947 peace settlement ended up ceding a large part of Karelia and some other areas to the Soviet Union.
As part of the agreement, the United States and Israel meet twice a year to honor the obligations of the memorandum of understanding.
Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century ; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as ' dozen ', which is a noun, ' first ', which is an adjective, or ' twice ', which is an adverb.
This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both expansion teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once during their first two seasons.
This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once during their first two seasons.
Both provide part of the lift, although they are not able to produce twice as much lift as a single wing of similar size and shape because the upper and the lower are working on nearly the same portion of the atmosphere.
In the Maryland Campaign of September, at the Battle of Antietam, Longstreet held his part of the Confederate defensive line against Union forces twice as numerous.
King John has been produced for television twice: in 1951 with Donald Wolfit and in 1984 with Leonard Rossiter as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series of adaptations.
Originally released as a single DVD on August 29, 2000, it was re-released twice as part of two different Abbott and Costello collections, The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Three, on August 3, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.
Plane Crazy ( as well as Steamboat Willie ) has been released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections twice:
Odysseus refers to him as his dearest friend, though he is only mentioned twice, once as part of Eurylochus's scouting group on Circe's island ( he is one of the first to enter Circe's palace ) and then when, after a year, he convinces Odysseus to leave Circe.
The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.
Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice.
This unit has deployed twice to Iraq, first as part of the 1-156TH Armor Battalion in 2004-2005 and then as part of the 2-108TH CAV SQDN in 2010.
This unit as part of the 256th IBCT deployed twice to Iraq in 2004-5 and 2010.
This unit deployed twice to Iraq as part of the 256TH IBCT in 2004-5 and 2010.
Since then the district has considerable grown twice: In 1932 parts of the dissolved district of Bordesholm joined the district ; and in 1970 the city of Norderstedt became part of the district.
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