While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

300 AD ), which comprised the territories of the Helvetii, Sequani and several smaller tribes.

In general, counties were made by amalgamating various smaller Irish territories which suited the colonial administration at the time and had little basis in older tribal boundaries.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

The fleet carried an invasion force that included, in addition to troops from William's own territories of Normandy and Maine, large numbers of mercenaries, allies and volunteers from Brittany, northeastern France and Flanders, together with smaller numbers from other parts of Europe.

The institutions for a modern nation state like a state bureaucracy, courts of law, print media and to a smaller extent, modern education, sowed the seeds of the fledgling nationalist movements in the colonial territories.

In Germany, numerous smaller towns and villages in the former eastern territories of Germany were completely destroyed by Allied forces.

These territories later became part of Poland and the Soviet Union, and many of the smaller settlements were never rebuilt or repopulated.

Lower Lorraine disintegrated into several smaller territories and only the title of a " Duke of Lothier " remained, held by Brabant.

Bern invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories, thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps, by the 18th century comprising most of what is today the canton of Bern and the canton of Vaud.

As a title, by the end of the medieval era, prince was borne by rulers of territories that were either substantially smaller than or exercised fewer of the rights of sovereignty than did emperors and kings.

Several of the most densely populated territories in the world are city-states, microstates, or dependencies .< ref > The Monaco government uses a smaller surface area figure resulting in a population density of 18, 078 per km < sup > 2 </ sup ></ ref > These territories share a relatively small area and a high urbanization level, with an economically specialized city population drawing also on rural resources outside the area, illustrating the difference between high population density and overpopulation.

Then, as these loyalties wavered and became more local, the Empire began to devolve into smaller territories and closer personal fealties.

With the beginning of the Byzantine offensives in the East and the Balkans in the 10th century, especially under the warrior-emperors Nikephoros II ( r. 963 – 969 ), John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ), newly gained territories were also incorporated into themes, although these were generally smaller than the original themes established in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Hyder, believing he would be supported by the British in conflict with the Marathas, began demanding tribute payments from smaller states on the frontiers between Maratha and Mysore territories, and refused to pay tributes demanded by the Marathas.

Cadet branches of the Wittelsbach also ruled over smaller territories in Neuburg and Sulzbach.

The size of these feeding territories is hard to estimate but may comprise a single large quarry or rock massif ; or, alternatively, a series of smaller quarries and rock faces.

There were more in areas that were very fragmented politically, such as Swabia and Franconia in the southwest, than in the North and the East where were located the larger and more powerful territories, such as Brandenburg and Saxony, which were more prone to absorb smaller, weaker states.

With Halberstadt, Brandenburg-Prussia also gained several smaller territories: the Lordship of Derenburg, the County of Regenstein, the Lordship of Klettenberg and the Lordship of Lohra.

Fu Jiān's force was composed of many smaller armies levied from the conquered northern territories, along with cavalry drawn from the nomadic peoples of the north ( the Xianbei and Xiongnu ).

Males occupy territories of, while females occupy smaller, non-overlapping territories of.

* Should the new united Germany include the German-speaking areas of Austria and thus separate these territories constitutionally from the remaining areas of the Habsburg Empire (" greater German solution ", Großdeutschland ), or should it exclude Austria, with leadership falling to Prussia (" smaller German solution ", Kleindeutschland )?

The expanded grouping, including Korean and Japanese, came to be known as " Macro-Altaic ", leading to the designation of the smaller grouping as " Micro-Altaic " by retronymy.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

A century later it came into increasing conflict with the expanding neo-Assyrian empire, which first split its territory into several smaller units and then destroyed its capital, Samaria ( 722 ).

" Another emphasis on the musicality of the poem came in August 1834, with Henry Nelson Coleridge analysis in the Quarterly Review: " In some of the smaller pieces, as the conclusion of the ' Kubla Khan ', for example, not only the lines by themselves are musical, but the whole passage sounds all at once as an outburst or crash of harps in the still air of autumn.

Using the overall SADC figures as a comparative benchmark, an even smaller number came to Malawi – 219, 000 in 1998, 254, 000 in 1999 and 222, 526 in 2000.

Associated with urbanization and changing social mores also came smaller families and changed relationships between parents and their children.

So OS / VS1 and SVS in principle had the same disadvantages as MFT and MVT, but the impacts were less severe because jobs could request much larger address spaces and the requests came out of a 16 MiB pool even if physical storage was smaller.

Early versions of the program came with both color-coded key stickers and a plastic full-keyboard template to make Wang operators more comfortable with the smaller IBM PC keyboard.

As the U. S. vehicles such as the Econoline evolved into larger full-sized vans, the term minivan came to use in North America, when Toyota and Chrysler launched their respective smaller minivan products for the 1984 model year.

The systems also came with a number of smaller built-in applications such as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Oxford Quotations, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and the Digital Librarian search engine to access them.

Verbs came in nine main conjugations ( seven strong and two weak ), each with numerous subtypes, as well as a few additional smaller conjugations and a handful of irregular verbs.

As better technologies emerged ( such as magnetic cartridges ), far smaller tracking forces became possible, and the balanced arm came into use.

Catalonia came under intense pressure from the taifas of Zaragoza and Lérida, and also from internal disputes, as Barcelona suffered a dynastic crisis which led to open war among the smaller counties ; but by the 1080s, the situation calmed, and the dominion of Barcelona over the smaller counties was restored.

Of course, smaller fortresses, or ones easily surprised, were taken as they came along.

It was proposed that this radiation came from a field of orbiting particles with a dimension on the order of a millimeter, as anything smaller would eventually be removed from the system by radiation pressure or drawn into the star by means of Poynting-Robertson drag.

Another account placed a polar bear of unknown age and weight together with a similar wolverine where the smaller, tenacious predator came out the victor.

The later ( and smaller ) earldom came about when the southern part of Northumbria ( ex-Deira ) was lost to the Danelaw.

At the same time, they increased the number of models imported from Mitsubishi: first came a smaller Colt ( based on Mitsubishi's Mitsubishi Lancer line ), then a revival of the Challenger ( though with nothing more than a four-cylinder under the hood, rather than the booming V8s of yore ).

By 1713 the public debt of the province of Holland had reached 310 million guilders ; the debt of the Generality was 68 million ; and the debts of the smaller provinces, and of the cities came on top of this.

A smaller version, Ars Minor, covered only the eight parts of speech ; eventually when books came to be printed in the 15th c., this was one of the first books to be printed.

The Portuguese territory came into existence during the history of Godwana and became aligned with European landforms after the super-continent Pangea began its slow separation into several smaller plates.

In the 1770s the abbey came close to demolition ; the expense of repairs meant a scheme to destroy the abbey and erect a smaller church almost succeeded.

A smaller part of the original March of the Slavs, centred north of modern Klagenfurt, preserved independence and came to be known as Carantania.

The CM-1 and 2 came first in models with 64K ( 65, 536 ) bit-serial processors ( 16 processors per chip ) and later smaller configurations ( 16, 384 ( 16K ) and 4, 096 ( 4K ) processors ).