The Ghaznavid dynasty was defeated in 1148 by the Ghurids from Ghor, but the Ghaznavid Sultans continued to live in Ghazni as the ' Nasher ' until the early 20th century.

In 897, a Zaidi ruler, Yahya al-Hadi ila ' l Haqq, founded a line of Imams, whose Shiite dynasty survived until the second half of the 20th century.

The Ming dynasty resumed communications with Po-ni in the 1370s and the Po-ni ruler Ma-na-jih-chia-na visited the Ming capital Nanjing in 1408 and died there ; his tomb was rediscovered in the 20th century, and is now a protected monument.

Before the 20th century, the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) was the earliest Chinese dynasty that could be verified from its own records.

As the senior line reigning over the Principality of Lippe bordered on extinction as the 20th century approached, a succession dispute between the Lippe-Biesterfeld and Schaumburg-Lippe branches of the dynasty arose, evoking international intervention and troop movements.

Within post-monarchical dynasties, until the end of the 20th century the heads of the Spanish and Italian Bourbon branches, the Orleans of both France and Brazil, and the Imperial Bonapartes have, in exile, exercised claimed authority to exclude from their dynasty descendants born of unapproved marriages — albeit without calling these marriages " morganatic ".

In 1885 E. H. Naville identified Goshen as the 20th nome of Egypt, located in the eastern Delta, and known as " Gesem " or " Kesem " during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt ( 672-525 BC ).

A highly cursive form of hieratic known as " Abnormal Hieratic " was used in the Theban area from the second half of the 20th dynasty until the beginning of the 26th Dynasty.

* Amenhotep, Priest of Amun, High Priest from the 20th dynasty

Towards the end of the 20th dynasty, under Pharaoh Ramses III in ancient Egypt on 14 November 1152 BC, the artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina organized the first known strike or workers ' uprising in recorded history.

* 20th dynasty ( 1186 – 1069 BC )

** The Immortals, the Iranian Imperial Guard, in Persia and Iran in the 20th century under the Pahlavi dynasty

It is a narrative set in the aftermath of the death of Pharaoh Amenemhat I, founder of the 12th dynasty of Egypt, in the early 20th century BC.

Three days before the discovery of KV55, Ayrton uncovered a recess in the rock ( now designated as KVC ) located immediately above the entrance to KV55 and containing jars of 20th dynasty type.

Baekje was destroyed by the Silla and Chinese Tang dynasty allied force in 660 ( 20th year of King Uija ) and ruled by Tang.

During the 20th dynasty, invasions of the " Sea Peoples " upset Egypt's control over the Eastern Mediterranean.

The sea peoples are documented during the late 19th dynasty and especially during year 8 of Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty when they tried to enter or control the Egyptian territory.

The House of Welf ( historically rendered in English as Guelf or Guelph ) was a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century.

The most notable family with this surname are the descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a European financial dynasty that was during the 19th, 20th and 21st century, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune in modern history.

The Djabal Ma ‘ âdid is in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, in the area where the following local dynasty had its citadel, the present ruin of Qal ‘ at Bani Hammad, a famous archaeological site that was excavated by the French early in the 20th century.

Unfortunately, however, Thutmose I's remains would be disturbed late during the 20th dynasty when KV38 was plundered ; the sarcophagus ' lid was broken and all this king's valuable precious jewellery and grave goods were stolen.

Around 950 AD, the Eastern Franks ( Ottonian dynasty ) started to put pressure upon the Slavic peoples inhabiting large areas of what was to become, in the mid of the 20th Century, the German Democratic Republic.

When it was excavated in the first years of the 20th century, a great amount of fine reliefs were found to an extent and quality superior to those from the dynasty before.

Repair and improvements were undertaken in 1703 and 1758, during the Joseon dynasty, however the Confucian-oriented rulers tended to suppress Buddhism and the remote mountain grotto was seriously damaged by the turn of the 20th century.

" Amazing Grace " saw a resurgence in popularity in the U. S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century, occasionally appearing on popular music charts.

The late 20th century also saw an expansion of the application of analytical chemistry from somewhat academic chemical questions to forensic, environmental, industrial and medical questions, such as in histology.

While the roots of formalised logic go back to Aristotele, the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries saw the development of modern logic and formalised mathematics.

The growing influence of English-dominated media from outside the Scottish communities saw the use of this language erode quickly during the 20th century.

The turn of the 20th century saw Cape Breton Island at the forefront of scientific achievement with the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

The 20th century saw a proliferation of enabling law across the world, which helped to drive economic booms in many countries before and after World War I.

The 20th century saw huge population movements.

During the 19th and early 20th century, many smaller or less developed languages saw their first encyclopedias, using French, German, and English role models.

The second half of the 20th century also saw the publication of several encyclopedias that were notable for synthesizing important topics in specific fields, often by means of new works authored by significant researchers.

The 20th century saw a remarkable expansion and evolution of critical theory, following on earlier Marxist Theory efforts to locate individuals within larger structural frameworks of ideology and action.

The early 20th century saw additions in technical industry with the advent of car and truck manufacturing company Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek ( DAF ) and the subsequent shift towards electronics and engineering, with the traditional tobacco and textile industries waning and finally disappearing in the 1970s.

The large-scale housing developments of the 20th century saw residential areas being built on former agricultural lands and woods, former heaths that had been turned into cultivable lands in the 19th century.

The first half of the 20th century saw a trend to increasing engine power, particularly in the American models.

The closing years of the 20th century saw controversial postmodern influences entering some parts of evangelicalism, particularly with the emerging church movement.

Although the earliest British films were of everyday events, the early 20th century saw the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly comedies and melodramas.

The early 20th century saw the development of photozincography, which allowed maps to be split into layers, for example one layer for vegetation and another for water.

The start of the 20th century also saw the opening of a short lived railway station on the Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly Station ( then Amiens Street ).

The first half of the 20th century saw Scottish universities fall behind those in England and Europe in terms of participation and investment.

The 19th and 20th centuries saw further standardization of the language, and differences between the mutually comprehensible dialects gradually lessened.

The instrument is also played in Great Britain ( Wales, East Anglia, Northumbria ) and the U. S., where its traditional use in folk music saw a notable revival in the late 20th Century.

The later 20th century saw a remarkable change in the attitude of Roman Catholic theologians to Palamas, a " rehabilitation " of him that has led to increasing parts of the Western Church considering him a saint, even if uncanonized.

The end of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century saw rapid advancements in telecommunications, computing hardware and software, and data encryption.

The first half of the 20th century saw an explosion of fundamental results, accompanied by vigorous debate over the foundations of mathematics.

The late 20th century saw an increase in the number of mosques used for political purposes.