Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The abbot of Loccum, who still carries a pastoral staff, takes precedence over all the clergy of Hanover, and was ex officio a member of the consistory of the kingdom.

The Last Day: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven, over which He rules, to a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

In 936, Otto I was crowned king of the kingdom in the collegiate church built by Charlemagne.

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

" The Franks then imprisoned Syagrius, and once his control over Syagrius ' former kingdom was secure Clovis had him beheaded.

As Peter Heather notes, the Visigothic kingdom was thrown into disarray " by the death of its king in battle.

Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the Visigothic kingdom was broken ; " Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones ," as Heather describes it.

Wacho's death in about 540 brought his son Walthari to the throne, but as the latter was still a minor the kingdom was governed in his stead by Alboin's father, Audoin, of the Gausian clan.

The full destruction of the Gepid kingdom was completed by the Avars, who overcame the Gepids in the east.

Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of León that Portugal was a sovereign kingdom.

With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a kingdom.

That treaty divided up the kingdom of Mercia.

Upharsin-Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

The later history of Kent shows clear evidence of a system of joint kingship, with the kingdom being divided into east Kent and west Kent, although it appears that there generally was a dominant king.

That kingdom was divided between al-Mutamin ( 1081 – 1085 ) who ruled Zaragoza proper, and his brother al-Mundhir, who ruled Lérida and Tortosa.

In the reunited kingdom, and later in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, the country came to be divided into administrative units called voivodeships.

This vast kingdom was divided up into various satrapies and governed roughly according to the Assyrian model, but with a far lighter hand.

After the death of Frederick II in 1250, the German kingdom was divided between his son Conrad IV ( died 1254 ) and the anti-king, William of Holland ( died 1256 ).

As archaeological discoveries revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom in the second half of the 19th Century, Archibald Henry Sayce postulated, rather than to be compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization " worthy of comparison to the divided Kingdom of Egypt ", and was " infinitely more powerful than that of Judah ".

The Hittite kingdom is conventionally divided into three periods, the Old Hittite Kingdom ( ca.

There were changes of dynasty, and the kingdom was divided, but it was re-united under Æthelfrith's son Oswald ( r. 634-42 ).

The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods.

In 1153 Baldwin had himself crowned as sole ruler, and a compromise was reached by which the kingdom was divided in two, with Baldwin taking Acre and Tyre in the north and Melisende remaining in control of Jerusalem and the cities of the south.

Following Agrippa II's death, his kingdom was divided between Roman Syria and Roman Judea.

The civil war lasted ten years and was ended only by a peace treaty imposed by the Emperor Louis II, the only Frankish king to exercise actual sovereignty over the Lombard states, in 849, which divided the kingdom into two states: the Principality of Benevento and the Principality of Salerno, with its capital at Salerno on the Tyrrhenian.

Upon its emergence in the early 17th century, the highland kingdom of Imerina was initially a minor power relative to the larger coastal kingdoms and grew even weaker in the early 18th century when King Andriamasinavalona divided it among his four sons.

In 1929, the kingdom was officially renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was divided into provinces called banovinas.

To the outside, the kingdom, even when divided under different kings, maintained unity and conquered Burgundy in 534.

Internally, the kingdom was divided among Clovis ' sons and later among his grandsons and frequently saw war between the different kings, who quickly allied among themselves and against one another.

" When he died his property was divided equally among his heirs as though it were private property: " the kingdom was a form of patrimony " ( Rouche 1987 p 420 ).

Searching for Llywarch's kingdom has led some historians to propose that, as was common in later Brythonic kingdoms, Rheged may well have been divided between sons, resulting in northern and southern successor states.

Following the Navarrese tradition, on his death in 1064 he divided his kingdom between his sons.

Today, slime molds have been divided between several supergroups, none of which are included in the kingdom Fungi.

The kingdom is divided into 13 regions ( manāṭiq ), which in turn are divided into numerous districts.

When his father Ferdinand I of Leon and Castile at his death in 1065 divided up his kingdom among his three sons, including himself, Sancho II remained silent.