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His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.
One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire.
During the 20th century BC the Indo-European Hittites entered the region and gradually established a great empire which was destroyed by invaders in the 12th century.
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.
The Mitanni Empire was also an Indo-European ( and Hurrian ) speaking and Anatolian based empire.
Following his death and the breakup of his empire, Anatolia was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms, much of it being controlled by the Greek Seleucid Empire.
In consolidating his empire and subduing contending factions he was ably assisted by Nizam ul-Mulk, his vizier, and one of the most eminent statesmen in early Muslim history.
Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.
Under the early Roman empire the place was known as Caesarea, and was the metropolis of Cilicia Secunda.
There also is no mention of Troy, which was not far from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire and militarily beyond the reach of the Vikings.
The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.
The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Mesopotamia.
Shu-Durul ( 2168 – 2154 BC ) appears to have restored some order, however he was unable to prevent the empire eventually collapsing outright from the invasion of barbarian peoples from the Zagros Mountains known as the Gutians.
The empire was bound together by roads, along which there was a regular postal service.
The new Frankish alliance was important because of the Franks ' known hostility to the Byzantine empire, providing the Lombards with more than one option.
Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.
Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration.
Due to the troubled times the empire was enduring, he had by far the greatest number of rebellions against him of all the Byzantine emperors.
The Almoravid power was at its height at Yusuf's death, and the Moorish empire then included all North-West Africa as far as Algiers, and all of Iberia south of the Tagus, with the east coast as far as the mouth of the Ebro, and included the Balearic Islands.
Alyattes, king of Lydia ( 619 – 560 BC ), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae.
Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

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The Almoravids ( Imṛabḍen, Al-Murābiṭūn ) were a Berber dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th-century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus.
They formed a unified empire under Attila the Hun, who died in 453 ; their empire broke up the next year.
As part of his reorganization of the empire in 300 AD, the Emperor Diocletian separated the administration of Crete from Cyrenaica and in the latter formed the new provinces of " Upper Libya " and " Lower Libya ", using the term Libya for the first time as an administrative designation.
( 5 ) The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.
The Ottoman Turks formed an empire starting from the 14th century which came to encompass the Balkans, Middle East and North Africa.
In 1238 Pope Gregory IX formed an alliance between Genoa and Venice against the empire, and consequently against Pisa too.
Syria formed the central part of the Umayyad empire.
In addition to its three provinces, Aragon is subdivided into 33 comarcas or counties ; all with a rich geopolitical and cultural history from its pre-Roman and Roman days ; and from the four centuries of Islamic period as Marca Superior of Al-Andalus or kingdom ( or taifa ) of Saraqustah, and as lands that once belonged to the Frankish Marca Hispanica ; and counties that later formed the Kingdom of Aragon and eventually the empire or Crown of Aragon.
In 190 a coalition led by Yuan Shao was formed between nearly all the provincial authorities in the eastern provinces of the empire against Dong Zhuo.
It is suggested by E. Herzfeld that, prior to its annexation to the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great in 6th century B. C., Bactria belonged to the Median empire and together with Margiana formed the twelfth satrapy of Persia.
During the first centuries of what is called the " Amorite period ", the most powerful city states in the south were Isin and Larsa, although Shamshi-Adad I usurped the throne of Assyria and formed a short lived empire in the north.
Another example of this pacification can be taken from the years revolving around 1896 in which the British empire destroyed large amounts of grain and food stocks, suppressing a riot being formed by the Ndeblee tribe.
The Triple Alliance formed a tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica.
Even after the empire was formed ( 1428 ) and began its program of expansion through conquest, the altepetl remained the dominant form of organization at the local level.
The Jurchen, a subject tribe within the Liao empire, rebelled against the Liao and formed their own state, the Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ).
This small empire was one of the Greek states formed from the remaining fragments of the Byzantine Empire, after the capture of Constantinople by Western European Christians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
The Xiongnu (; Middle Chinese Guangyun: ) were ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han Dynasty.
Prior to the Spanish conquest ( 1519 – 1522 ) most of present day Mexico formed the Aztec Empire, a native American empire ruled from Tenochtitlán ( present day Mexico City ) by a tlatoani or " emperor ".
The best known to the general public today is probably the empire from Star Wars, which was formed in turn from the Galactic Republic.
For about four hundred years the district formed part of the Frankish empire, being administered by counts, but in the 9th century the German Duchy of Swabia subsumed it.
Academies of scholars sponsored by the empire were formed to comment on the classics in both printed and handwritten form.
The last vestige of the Overland automobile empire remains in the form of bricks spelling out " Overland " in the smoke stacks at the Toledo factory that once formed the core of Willys automotive empire.
In the 2nd century BCE, Judea lay between the Ptolemaic Kingdom based in Egypt and the Seleucid empire based in Syria, kingdoms formed after the death of Alexander the Great ( 336 – 323 BCE ).

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