Within the Yangban class, the Scholars ( Munban ) enjoyed a significant social advantage over the warrior ( Muban ) class, until the Muban Rebellion in 1170.

The subdistricts are further subdivided into administrative villages ( Muban, ) as the lowest administrative subdivision.

Geographically the Tuoba Xianbei ruled Inner Mongolia and northern China, the Nirun ( Yujiulu Shelun was the first to use the title Khagan in 402 ) ruled Outer Mongolia, the Khitan were concentrated in Southern Manchuria north of Korea and the Shiwei were located to the north of the Khitan.

Korea was ruled by the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, and ruled over it until its defeat in World War II.

During the period before the Japanese invasion into Korea, the geopolitics of East Asia were ruled by the Chinese tributary system.

Thus by the time of King Sejong ( ruled 1418 – 1450 ), all branches of learning were rooted in this way of thinking although branches of Buddhism in Korea were still let to grow outside of the major political centres in a tolerance of other kinds of worship.

Except for the period of 200 years beginning with his son and successor, King Jangsu, and the later kingdom of Balhae, Korea never before or since ruled such a vast territory.

Although the Vatican ruled in 1789 that the appointment of lay-priests violated Canon Law, Christianity was introduced into Korea by indigenous lay-workers, not by foreign prelates.

King Gongmin ( 1330 – 1374 ) ruled Goryeo Dynasty Korea from 1351 until 1374.

In 1950, when U. S. President Harry S. Truman announced that Washington had not entirely ruled out the use of nuclear weapons in Korea, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson recalled the remarks caused Ottawa to collectively “ shudder ”.

During the game he was injured and was ruled out of the remaining two group games, against North Korea and Brazil.

However, the Joseon Dynasty court which ruled Korea was well aware of the colonization of China as a result of the First as well as the Second Opium War and maintained a strict policy of isolationism to avoid a similar fate.

At that time Korea was ruled by a Regent, the Heungseon Daewongun, in the name of his minor son King Gojong.

In Korea, Providence church filed a suit against the Korean news and the court ruled in favor of the church, ordering the following: 1 ) the media must not use one-sided material provided by the informer and others ; 2 ) the media must inform the organization 48 hours before broadcasting ; 3 ) the media must guarantee 5 % of the broadcasting time to Church so that their rebuttal will also be aired ; 4 ) if these orders are violated, the media must pay damages in the amount of 30 million won ( about the equivalent of $ 30, 000 ) for each violation.

Goguryeo ( an antecedent of modern Korea ) ruled the area for a brief period.

As of this date, analysts believed North Korea had ruled out further talks until after the United States presidential election in November 2008.

The dominant force of the Mixed Team has only recently changed hands from GB to Korea but the former power houses Spain and Portugal can never be ruled out.

The Korean claim is partly based on what is perceived ( on the Korean side ) to be an ambiguity in the 1712 boundary agreement between the Qing Dynasty ( which ruled China at the time ) and the Joseon Dynasty ( which ruled Korea at the time ); this actually did not become an issue again until about 150 years after the agreement was approved by both parties, when Manchuria and Gando was opened to Han Chinese migration by the Qing.

The other major part of the claim relies on the fact that by the time the Gando Convention was signed in 1909, the Korean state ( by that time the Korean Empire ) was neither consulted nor had any way of disputing the legitimacy of the treaty as it was already a protectorate of the Japanese Empire and was essentially prevented from resolving or re-negotiating the boundary dispute as an independent state, and as such the Gando Convention, like other unequal treaties ( such as the Eulsa Treaty and the Japan-Korea treaty of 1910 ) dealing with Korean territory / governance or claims made by Imperial Japan, should be revoked and the boundary dispute rectified between Korea ( though there is no stated consensus on which of the two current Koreas should be party to this ) and the People's Republic of China ( though the Republic of China, as the nationalist successor to the Qing Dynasty, may be a more legitimate party to this on the Chinese side as it still claims all of the territory held while the Qing Dynasty still ruled China as a sovereign state ).

Historically, Korea was differently ruled and named.

Korean royal court cuisine ( Joseon Wangjo Gungjung yori ) was the style of cookery within Korean cuisine traditionally consumed at the court of the Joseon Dynasty, which ruled Korea from 1392 to 1910.

The politics of the Joseon Dynasty, which ruled Korea from 1392 to 1910, were governed by the reigning ideology of Korean Confucianism, a form of Neo-Confucianism.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

The Roman Empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 ), showing the location of the Anglii then inhabiting the neck of the Jutland peninsula ( Denmark )

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2005, a California federal court ruled that a group alleging that anthroposophy is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes did not provide any legally admissible evidence in support of this view ; the case is under appeal.

The Roman empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117-38 ), showing the location of the Burgundiones Germanic group, then inhabiting the region between the Viadua ( Oder ) and Visula ( Vistula ) rivers ( Poland )

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

In the kind of constitutional monarchy established under the Constitution of the German Empire which Bismarck inspired, the Kaiser retained considerable actual executive power, and the Prime Minister needed no parliamentary vote of confidence and ruled solely by the imperial mandate.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

Civil liberties groups challenged the law under the First Amendment and in 1997 the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

In Missouri v. Holland, the Supreme Court ruled that the power to make treaties under the U. S. Constitution is a power separate from the other enumerated powers of the federal government, and hence the federal government can use treaties to legislate in areas which would otherwise fall within the exclusive authority of the states.

Although effective while he ruled, Diocletian's Tetrarchic system collapsed after his abdication under the competing dynastic claims of Maxentius and Constantine, sons of Maximian and Constantius respectively.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Since then, the country has had two presidents: Francisco Macías Nguema, the former mayor of Mongomo under the Spanish colonial government, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( Macías's nephew ), who has ruled since 1979 when he staged a military coup d ' état and executed Macías.

The parts of the region were under the domain of Bahr Negash ruled by the Bahr Negus.

In Loizidou v Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that jurisdiction of member states to the convention extended to areas under that state's effective control as a result of military action.

The Court has ruled that states have three main duties under Article 2:

In Goodwin v United Kingdom the Court ruled that a law which still classified post-operative transsexual persons under their pre-operative sex, violated article 12 as it meant that transsexual persons were unable to marry individuals of their post-operative opposite sex.

Mountbatten also developed a strong relationship with the Indian princes, who ruled those portions of India not directly under British rule.

French Guinea, along with Senegal, Dahomey, Cote-d ' Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger each were ruled by a lieutenant governor, under the Governor General in Dakar.

Fascist leaders who ruled countries were not always heads of state, but were heads of government, such as Benito Mussolini, who held power under the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.