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In the spring, the Byzantine navy destroyed the Arab fleets that had arrived with new provisions and equipment, while a Byzantine army defeated Arab reinforcements in Bithynia.
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spring and Byzantine
It started in Egypt, and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing ( according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius ) 10, 000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40 % of the city's inhabitants.
His life's work was the restoration of the Gothic kingdom in Italy, and he entered upon the task from the very beginning of his reign, collecting together and inspiring the Goths, defeating a poorly led Byzantine attack on the Gothic stronghold of Verona in the winter of 541, and scattering the stronger Byzantine army at Faenza ( Battle of Faventia ) in the spring of 542.
In the spring of next year, the Magyar tribes attacked the Bulgarian Empire and defeated Emperor Simeon I, requiring him to conclude peace with the Byzantine Empire.
A Byzantine counteroffensive launched by Emperor Heraclius in the spring of 622 shifted the advantage, however, and the war was brought to an end by the fall of Khosrow on 25 February 628 ( Frye, pp. 167 – 70 ).
The hill is known as Gemen Korusu ( grove of Gemen ) or Karakuyu ( blackwell, because of a dried spring beside a Byzantine church ).
In the spring of 895, the Magyar tribes attacked the Bulgarian Empire allied with the Byzantine emperor, Leo VI the Wise and defeated Emperor Simeon I of Bulgaria obliging him to conclude peace with the Byzantine Empire.
Local attractions include the abundant wild flowers in the spring, the opportunity to see Venetian and Byzantine wall paintings in some of the local churches ( those in Anidri and Voutas being particularly impressive ), and a museum dedicated to the Acretans in the town itself.
The circular base of the dome is not carried, in the conventional way, by pendentives formed above the arches of the square, but on a circle formed by eight arches that spring from eight of the twelve columns, cutting across each corner in the manner of the Byzantine squinch.
Byzantine formed in the spring of 2000 by bassist Chris " Cid " Adams, guitarist Tony Rohrbough and vocalist / guitarist Chris " OJ " Ojeda after their former bands New Family and Temper split up.
The Arabs defeated a Byzantine relief force in spring 708, whereupon the city surrendered itself.
spring and navy
When the Allies failed to commit to this, the Athenian fleet refused to join the Allied navy in spring.
In the spring of 208, Lü Meng was tasked to be the navy commandant when Sun Quan set out to battle his nemesis Huang Zu again in the Battle of Jiangxia.
When the Allies failed to commit to this, the Athenian fleet refused to join the Allied navy in the spring.
She returned to the navy in the spring of 1924.
He departed the merchant service in the spring of 1776 and signed on as a lieutenant in the navy of the colony of Virginia.
Cafe cars were decorated with light-turquoise splotches and navy blue window stripes, and instead of a window where the snack bar was, there was a splotch of spring green.
spring and destroyed
In Syria, the shrine of Astarte at the headwater spring of the river Adonis survived until it was destroyed by order of Emperor Constantine in the 4th century.
Within this polar vortex, over 50 % of the lower stratospheric ozone is destroyed during the Antarctic spring.
Once the ice on the Amur broke in the spring of 1652, Khabarov's people destroyed their fort and sailed away.
A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915.
It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.
The village was destroyed in spring 2009 during severe flooding.
Fortunately for Columbus, an ice jam destroyed the Lost Creek bridge in the spring of 1881.
In 1875, the best " hard " West Deer Park bricks were selling for $ 7 per 1, 000 delivered, but the plant was destroyed by a forest fire in the spring of 1893.
At the end of the sixth season ( spring 2002 ), the Magic Box is destroyed in a battle between Willow and Buffy.
His family endured a cold winter — the warmest place in their shack was on the kitchen table, so they kept the baby there — and in the spring their crops were destroyed by hail.
Mount Seymour's Enquist Cabin, located in the Tube Park Parking Lot was destroyed in a fire in the late spring of 2005.
Demolition crews destroyed the Will Rogers Elementary School, an adjacent elementary school located at 3101 Weslayan that closed in spring 2006.
The spring, however, began to flow in all directions and thereafter the milk turned into inedible earth, leaving not only the original perpetrators but all the former inhabitants of the now destroyed castle to starve.
In the spring of 1937, at the age of 80, he was severely burned in a fire that destroyed his apartment.
A network which was organised in the Paris area by Pierre de Vomécourt, but which had been destroyed by the spring of 1942 after being betrayed by Mathilde Carre.
The Indians retaliated in a widespread spring offensive beginning in February 1676, in which they destroyed all English settlements on the western side of Narragansett Bay.
The last dam and its powerhouse was destroyed by an unusually high spring freshet, exacerbating the spring flood of May 1, 1923, which also washed out the bridge that crossed the Meduxnekeag.
", Brainiac shows up at the end of the episode following Lex Luthor's defeat plotting to shrink Metropolis in order to repopulate his destroyed planet causing Batman and Superman to spring into action.
Several trains are destroyed in this way by the spring of 1952.
* In the spring of 1904, Wood destroyed or captured 130 cottas during the Second Battle of Taraca.
The custom continued each spring until 1517, when student riots put an end to it, but the maypole itself survived until 1547 when a Puritan mob seized it and destroyed it as a " pagan idol ".
Starting in the spring of 1983 U. S. 6 was a discontinuous route for almost one year, due to a massive landslide that destroyed the town of Thistle, Utah.
The expedition, with attacks from the spring through the fall, also destroyed the crops of the Indians, to drive them out of the land.
spring and Arab
In the spring of 1979, after the Arab League had extended the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force, the Sudanese, the Saudis and the UAE troops departed Lebanon, the Libyan troops were essentially abandoned and had to find their own way home, if at all.
In Arab tradition, Hagar runs back and forth between two elevated points seven times to search for help before sitting down in despair, at which point the angel speaks as recorded in Genesis 21: 17-19: Here, the tradition holds that a spring gushed forth from the spot where Hagar had laid Ishmael, and this spring came to be known as the Well of Zamzam.
It is estimated that the IMU were now approximately 2000 strong, and in the spring they contributed around 600 fighters to the Taliban's offensive against Massoud, participating in the successful siege of Taloqan, where they fought alongside Bin Laden's 555 Arab Brigade.
Middle East — general issues, the impact of the Palestinian problem and its relevance in the Arab world, the consequences of the so-called Arab spring and the growth of the Islamic movements and parties, Arab-Iranian, Arab-Israeli and Iran-Israeli relations ; 2.
It was a pond or marsh formed by a spring in the wadi, located to the east of the road from Medina to Mecca, three ( according to other sources two ) Arab miles ( roughly 4 to 6 km ) from Al-Johfa ( modern Rabigh ), roughly 180 km from both Mecca and Medina, at ca.
The Arab geographers mention the thick trees that surround it and the Mosque of the Prophet lying between it and the spring.
In the spring of 1979, after the Arab League had extended the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force, the Sudanese, the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates troops departed Lebanon, the Libyan troops were essentially abandoned and had to find their own way home ( if at all ), and the ADF thereby became a purely Syrian force ( which did include the Palestinian Liberation Army ( PLA )).
Today ( 2010 ) he hosts an eponymous interview show " Pozner " on Russia's Channel One Pozner asked his guests questions on behalf of Mr. Sineboka-to the " Arab spring.
have described their involvement in the planning, coordination and implementation of the 2011 " Arab spring " revolutions.
Shadia was born in Cairo on Feb. 8 .. And carrying the baby, her parents did not know that someday she will be the spring of singing and Egyptian and Arab acting.
As of 2011, Husain is hosting BBC programme Impact which airs Monday to Friday on BBC World News, but in spring and summer 2011 was engaged on making a documentary on the Arab Spring, for airing in the autumn of 2011.
In the spring of 1915, while the Arab Revolt was rising, Cemal instituted strict control over Syria against Arab opponents of the Ottomans.
“ What's true about the Arab spring, is even truer about small projects in little villages.
While the government was swift and brutal in attempting to suppress the uprising, this movement is today credited for being the first seeds of the revolution that enabled the Tunisians to remove Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | from power and ignited the Arab spring in the rest of North Afirca and the Middle East and beyond.
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