Hurrian kingdoms, such as Nairi and the powerful state of Urartu arose in north eastern Anatolia from the 10th century BC, before eventually falling to the Assyrians.

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

But by the 10th century the rule was commonly set aside, and we find frequent complaints of abbots dressing in silk, and adopting sumptuous attire.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

The 10th century Skald Þorbjörn dísarskáld is quoted in Skáldskaparmál as stating:

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Details of his life are described in a work by the 10th century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

In the 10th century, Middle-Eastern mathematicians extended the decimal numeral system to include fractions, as recorded in a treatise by Syrian mathematician Abu ' l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi in 952 – 953.

A distinctive West Arabic variant of the symbols begins to emerge around the 10th century in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus, called ghubar (" sand-table " or " dust-table ") numerals, which are the direct ancestor of the modern Western Arabic numerals used throughout the world.

As a result of influence from the West Saxons, the tribes were collectively called Anglo-Saxons by the Normans, the West Saxon kingdom having conquered, united and founded the Kingdom of England by the 10th century.

Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century ; she was regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991-995.

However, other scholars have argued that though 80 % of al-Andalus converted to Islam, it did not truly occur until near the 10th century.

The complete conversion of Afghanistan to Islam was during the period of the Ghaznavids in the 10th century.

The Hindu Shahi were defeated in the early part of the 10th century by Mahmud of Ghazna who ruled between 998 and 1030.

In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

In 10th century Yemen al-Hamdani described how spreading al-iglimiya, probably zinc oxide, onto the surface of molten copper produced tutiya vapor which then reacted with the metal.

German brass making crucibles are known from Dortmund dating to the 10th century AD and from Soest and Schwerte in Westphalia dating to around the 13th century confirm Theophilus ' account, as they are open-topped, although ceramic discs from Soest may have served as loose lids which may have been used to reduce zinc evaporation, and have slag on the interior resulting from a liquid process.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

The American historian, Richard Bulliet, in a work based on the quantitative use of the onomastic data as furnished by scholarly biographical dictionaries, concluded that it was only in the 10th century when the Andalusi emirate was firmly established and developed into the greatest power of the western Mediterranean under Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III, that the numerical ratio of Muslims and Christians in Al-Andalus was reversed in favour of the former.

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 691 – 6 February 743 ) () 10th Umayyad caliph who ruled from 723 until his death in 743.

It is named after the 10th century Persian astronomer Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi.

Abu al-Saqr al-Qabisi Abd al-Aziz ibn Uthman, Abu al-Saqr al-Qabisi, Al-Qabisi, Alchabitius ( or Alcabitius < Medieval Latin < Arabic: Abû al-Saqr al-Qabîsî ' Abd al -' Azîz ibn Uthmân, أبو الصقر القبيصي عبد العزيز بن عثمان ), also known as Alchabiz, Abdelazys, Abdilaziz (< Arabic: ' Abd al-Azîz, عبدالعزيز ), was a 10th century Arabian astrologer ( died 967 ).

At the beginning of the 10th century the Moorish Caliph, Abd ur Rahman the Third, made a special trip from Cordoba to collect over a hundred medicinal herbs from the slopes of Montgó.

In the 10th century, al-Sufi first described over 1, 000 different uses of an astrolabe, in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrology, horoscopes, navigation, surveying, timekeeping, prayer, Salah, Qibla, etc.

Under the PSI, a 10th Special Forces Group training team carried out a one week border monitoring training programme in January 2004.

Parabolic mirrors were also described by the physicist Ibn Sahl in the 10th century, and Ibn al-Haytham discussed concave and convex mirrors in both cylindrical and spherical geometries, carried out a number of experiments with mirrors, and solved the problem of finding the point on a convex mirror at which a ray coming from one point is reflected to another point.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries ; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s.

On the 10th April, the anniversary of the consecration of her temple on the Palatine, her image was carried in procession to the Circus Maximus, and races were held in her honour.

Tazia is the replica of Mausoleum of Hazrat Imam Hussain ( A. S ), which is carried in the procession on the 10th of Moharram every year.

Attendants, including Dr. Charles Leale, carried the President onto 10th Street.

The battle took the form of a pincer manoeuvre, carried out by the British 8th Army and U. S. 5th Army against the German 10th Army ( 10.

This battle happened prior to the invasion in February 2003 and was carried out with officers from SAD and the U. S. Army's 10th Special Forces Group.

The styles are named after 10th yokozuna Unryū Kyūkichi and 11th yokozuna Shiranui Kōemon of the Edo period, although there is no historical proof that they actually carried out the dances that have been attributed to them.

It was carried out by Paramilitary Operations Officers from SAD and the Army's 10th Special Forces Group.

Accordingly, soldiers of the 10th Mtn Div carried no knives, yet continue to display blood-red crossed-knives as part of their shoulder insignia.

In a separate poll carried out by Verdict, Reading was placed 10th in the table of UK shopping destinations.

The landing at Suvla was actually carried out by Irish Soldiers from the 10th Division and British Soldiers from the 11th Division, although Australians were involved in an attempt to break out from the ANZAC lines and link up with the British.

On August 25, the Rockies won 5 – 4 on another walk-off thanks to Troy Tulowitzki's bases loaded, one out single in the bottom of the 10th.

Although Zurvanism had died out by the 10th century the critical question of the " twin brothers " mentioned in Yasna 30. 3 remained, and Haug's explanation provided a convenient defence against Christian missionaries who disparaged the Parsis ( Indian Zoroastrians ) for their ' dualism '.

During the 10th century villages were carved out of Adrian's Capracorum estate: Campagnano, mentioned first in 1076 ; Formello, mentioned in 1027 ; Mazzano, mentioned in 945 ; and Stabia ( modern Faleria ), mentioned in 998.

The Astros were shut out nine times in Clemens ' 32 starts, and failed to score in a 10th until after Clemens was out of the game.

Srivijaya's wealth and influence faded when changes in nautical technology in the 10th century enabled Chinese and Indian merchants to ship cargo directly between their countries and also enabled the Chola state in southern India to carry out a series of destructive attacks on Srivijaya's possessions, ending Palembang's entrepot function.

The principality, which he thus carved out for himself, was occupied, on his death, by Erispoé, duke of Brittany ; by him it was handed down to his successors, in whose hands it remained until the beginning of the 10th century.

Moor pirates operated out of the Balearic Islands in the 10th century.

The 10th Anniversary release was the last version of Toy Story to be released before taken out of the Disney Vault lineup, along with Toy Story 2.

On the 10th hole, Snead's drive landed behind an out of bounds stake.

The small Greenland colony, established in the late 10th century, died out completely before 1500.

According to Mazar, "" It's the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel ," and " It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction.

It is not until the final breakup of the Carolingian Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries that it becomes possible to trace out the local history of different parts of the Alps, notably with the High Medieval Walser migrations.

3, 000 British and 800 French troops, assisted by Royal Navy warships, held out from 22 May to 27 May 1940 against the 10th Panzer Division.

The Dabru Emet was first published on September 10th, 2000, in the New York Times, and has since been used in Jewish education programs across the U. S. While affirming that there are theological differences between these two religions, the purpose of Dabru Emet is to point out common ground and a legitimacy of Christianity, for non-Jews, from the Jewish perspective.

Raitt herself pointed out that her 10th try was " my first sober album.

* Luke Goosen-actor, three time defending champion of NEC Swedish Meatball Eating Competition, and 2011 World's Strongest Man participant ( finished 10th out of 10 contestants )

Based on reported 2009-2010 IB / AP test participation data, Locust Valley High School is ranked 55th nationally, 10th in the northeast, and second on Long Island ( behind Jericho ) Magazine May 2012. This ranking being out of some 27, 000 public high schools nationally.

South Euclid ranked 10th out of the 114 largest cities in Ohio in terms of walkability.

Not until late in the Bronze Age ( 10th century BC ) did parts of what is now Älvkarleby begin to rise out of the Baltic Sea.