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780s and Mercian
After 772, there is no further evidence of Mercian involvement in Sussex until c. 790, and it may be that Offa gained control of Sussex in the late 780s, as he did in Kent.

780s and with
King Ecgberht's father Ealhmund had been King of Kent in the 780s, bringing the family into conflict with the ambitions of Offa of Mercia ( 757-96 ), who sought to impose direct rule on Kent.
In Italy, late 780s were available with the B204GT.

780s and Beorhtric
However, Offa and Beorhtric had driven Egbert into exile in the 780s, and the blackening of her name may also have been partly due to a desire to discredit Beorhtric.

780s and Offa's
In Kent, Offa intervened decisively in the 780s, and at some point became the overlord of East Anglia, whose king, Æthelred, was beheaded at Offa's orders in 794.

780s and .
At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s.
Kaupang was founded in the 780s and abandoned for unknown reasons in the early 10th century.
If he did succeed, he would have done so around 740, but his fate is unknown and the region of Tudmir had lost its independence by the 780s.
When the Anchabadze dynasty established the Kingdom of Abkhazia in the 780s and freed themselves from the Byzantine hegemony, Abkhazia became a part of the Georgian cultural world.
:* the Arithmos ( Gr., " Number ") or Vigla ( Gr. Βίγλα, from the Latin word for " Watch "), promoted from thematic troops by the Empress Eirene in the 780s, but of far older ancestry, as the archaic names of its ranks indicate.
By 1982, the project had a staff of 17, serving about 400 users at six sites, using seven VAXen ( six VAX-11 / 780s and one VAX-11 / 750, representing a total of about 6. 5 GB of disk space ).

extended and Mercian
While Wulfhere extended Mercian influence and authority in southern Britain, he apparently continued to recognise Oswiu's primacy.
Beorhtwulf restarted a Mercian coinage early in his reign, and the extended gap in the 830s has led to the suggestion that Wiglaf's second reign was as a client king of Egbert's, without permission to mint his own coinage.
In the 8th century Offa extended the Mercian frontier to the Wye, securing it by the earthwork known as Offa's Dyke.

extended and supremacy
A people called the Akkadians invaded the valley under Sargon I and established their supremacy over the Sumerians, and extended their control into Syria as far as the coast.
He strengthened royal authority in the north of England through reform of the Council of the North, extended royal power and introduced religious reform in Ireland, and was the architect of legislation, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542, which promoted stability and gained acceptance for the royal supremacy in Wales.
That his reputation extended beyond the Pyrenees in his own lifetime may be gathered from the fact that James Shirley's Opportunity is derived from El Castigo del penséque ; but he was neglected in Spain itself during the long period of Calderón's supremacy, and his name was almost forgotten till the end of the 18th century, when some of his pieces were timidly recast by Dionisio Solis and later by Juan Carretero.
The first Saka king in India was Maues or Moga who established Saka power in Gandhara and gradually extended supremacy over north-western India.
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC ( 21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768 ) was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century.
The first Saka king in India was Maues ( Moga ) ( 1st century BCE ) who established Saka power in Gandhara and gradually extended supremacy over north-western India.
Similarly, Geoffrey Parker has extended the period of the military revolution from 1450 to 1800, the period in which Europeans achieved supremacy over the rest of the world.

extended and over
The first sampling census in the Congo extended over a three-year period, 1955 - 57 ; ;
The dominion of Alp Arslan after Manzikert extended over much of western Asia.
* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.
A logical conclusion to draw is that the Hermunduri extended over later Swabia and therefore the Alemanni originally derived from the Hermunduri!
The Bailie ’ s authority extended over the rector of Aegina, whereas Kastri ( opposite Hydra ) had been granted to two families, the Palaiologoi and the Alberti.
The main Hadrianic cardo terminated not far beyond its junction with the decumanus, where it reached the Roman garrison's encampment, but in the Byzantine era it was extended over the former camp to reach the southern walls of the city.
The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.
Exhaustive searches have been carried out to find all pairs less than a given bound, this bound being extended from 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > in 1970, to 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > in 1986, 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > in 1993, and to a bound well over that today.
The layout of the table has been refined and extended over time, as new elements have been discovered, and new theoretical models have been developed to explain chemical behavior.
Another class of carbine is a semi-automatic version of a submachine gun, with an extended barrel, usually just over 406 mm ( 16 inches ) long, which will escape ban by some " assault weapon " legislation.
; Field goal: Scored by a drop kick or place kick ( except on a kickoff ) when the ball, after being kicked and without again touching the ground, goes over the cross bar and between the goal posts ( or between lines extended from the top of the goal posts ) of the opponent's goal, worth three points.
From the archaeological excavations in the 1970s, it is clear that construction took over most of the site of the earlier temple enclosure and that the Triportico and Rotunda roughly overlapped with the temple building itself ; the excavations indicate that the temple extended at least as far back as the Aedicule, and the temple enclosure would have reached back slightly further.
" With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust — and, later, the Thin White Duke — from his own character offstage.
This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics ' top-selling character.
These cells and the bacteria trapped inside them entered a symbiotic relationship, a close association between different types of organisms over an extended time.
The paradox is further extended when one considers that – despite his claims of spiritual authority over Philemon – Paul frames himself – and, by extension, both Philemon and Onesimus – as fellow bondservants of Christ, who being their spiritual master, is also their brother and equal.
To all this activity must be added numerous writings of a miscellaneous nature, addresses, letters, and the like, and exegetical works that extended over the whole of his life and that include both commentaries and treatises on Biblical archaeology.
Regardless of speculation about Keitai's genealogy, it is well settled that there was an extended period of disputes over the succession which developed after Keitai's death.
It extended over the modern-day Belgian provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders, and Hainaut.
Approximate fractals found in nature display self-similarity over extended, but finite, scale ranges.
In animals, adipose, or fatty tissue is the body's means of storing metabolic energy over extended periods of time.
Secondary sources of law were developed and refined over the subsequent centuries, consisting primarily of juristic preference ( istihsan ), laws of the previous prophets ( shara man qablana ), continuity ( istihsab ), extended analogy ( maslaha mursala ), blocking the means ( sadd al-dhari ' ah ), custome urf and saying of a companion ( qawl al-sahabi ).
Moreover, the original concept of Fourier analysis has been extended over time to apply to more and more abstract and general situations, and the general field is often known as harmonic analysis.
The murals often develop over an extended period and tend to stylization, with a strong symbolic or iconographic content.
The notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical research or theoretical analysis ( see viscosity of amorphous materials ).

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