He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

In the meantime, Andrew began to deal with the problems of the southern borders of his kingdom.

The same period saw the rapid rise of Persia, previously an unimportant kingdom in present-day southern Iran, to a position of great power, and in 539 BC Cyrus II, the Persian ruler, conquered Babylon.

God therefore breaks the kingdom in two, with David's line reigning in the southern kingdom of Judah with a separate kingdom of Israel in the north.

This city, modern el-Meshed, located only several miles from Nazareth in what would have been known as Israel in the post-exilic period ( as distinct from the southern kingdom, known as Judah ) and Galilee around the time of Christ.

As part of Aquitaine, it was ruled by England between 1151 to 1452 and was a key commercial center at the southern end of the English kingdom.

Thus, southern Germany once more became part of the Frankish kingdom, as had northern Germany during the first years of the reign.

First, it concerns a king of the southern kingdom, while Elijah concerned himself with the kingdom of Israel.

However Michael Wilcock, formally of Trinity College, Bristol, argues that Elijah's letter: ' does address a very ' northern ' situation in the southern kingdom ', and thus is authentic.

Although James had tried to get the Scottish Church to accept some of the High Church Anglicanism of his southern kingdom, he met with limited success.

Around 930 BCE, the kingdom split into a southern Kingdom of Judah and a northern Kingdom of Israel.

The Persian armies were completely defeated and southern Afghanistan was made into an independent local Pashtun kingdom.

The Scottish Gaelic language arrived via Ireland due to the growing influence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from the 6th century onwards and became the dominant language of the southern Hebrides at that time.

By the time of Shaka's assassination in 1828, it had made the Zulu kingdom the greatest power in southern Africa and a force to be reckoned with, even against Britain's modern army in 1879.

While the southern kingdom made no serious effort to militarily regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled.

With the capture of Ascalon the southern border of the kingdom was now secure, and Egypt, formerly a major threat to the kingdom but now destabilized under the reign of several underaged caliphs, was reduced to a tributary state.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

In southern Europe, the Inquisition existed in the kingdom of Aragon during the medieval period, but not elsewhere in the Iberian peninsula.

* a prince of the southern kingdom of Judah during the reign of king Jehoshaphat ( 2 Chronicles )

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.

Rehoboam ( pronounced ; ; ; ) was initially king of the United Monarchy of Israel but after the ten northern tribes of Israel rebelled in 932 / 931 BC to form the independent Kingdom of Israel he was king of the Kingdom of Judah, or southern kingdom.

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

In southern Europe, the Cretaceous is usually a marine system consisting of competent limestone beds or incompetent marls.

The majority of the seventy islanders live in the crofts on the southern half of the island, with the northern half consisting of rocky moorland.

India is entirely contained on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formed when it split off from the ancient continent Gondwanaland ( ancient landmass, consisting of the southern part of the supercontinent of Pangea ).

In late Roman times, the provincial boundaries were reorganized to form the Diocese of Macedonia, consisting of most of modern mainland Greece right across the Aegean to include Crete, southern Albania, and parts of modern-day Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia.

A ground force consisting largely of U. S. and British armoured and infantry divisions ejected Saddam's army from Kuwait in February 1991 and occupied the southern portion of Iraq as far as the Euphrates.

The island is characterized by the contrast between the eastern two-thirds, consisting mostly of rugged mountains running in five ranges from the northern to the southern tip of the island, and the flat to gently rolling Chianan Plains in the west that are also home to most of Taiwan's population.

The southern part is the closed canopy forest, consisting of many closely spaced trees with mossy ground cover.

Despite the increasing number of out-of-state visitors who came to the race every year, the " Oaks " ( as local residents simply refer to it ) has always been considered to be a local event by the people of Kentuckiana ( the Ohio Valley, centered around Louisville, and consisting of much of northern Kentucky and southern Indiana ).

Class ( ADO ) and luxury services ( UNO ) to most southern Mexico cities outside Yucatán with a fleet consisting of Mercedez Benz and Volvo buses.

Axminster is the southern starting point of the Taunton Stop Line, a World War II defensive line consisting of pillboxes and anti-tank obstacles, which runs north to the Somerset coast near Highbridge.

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( SIAC ) is a College athletic conference consisting of historically black colleges and universities located in the southern United States.

The southern portion of Cooke AFB ( Formerly Camp Cooke ), consisting of more than, was transferred to the U. S. Navy in May 1958.

The southern half, consisting of developments Belinder Hills, Indian Hills and Sagamore Hills, contains affluent upper middle class residences and the private Indian Hills Country Club.

Through the nineteenth century a two room school building stood on the southern end of Highway 31E, but in 1916, a new building consisting of four classrooms was built.

The township is irregularly-shaped, with a southern appendange consisting of a small portion of land lying between the St. Joseph River on the west and Cass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south.

* Allendale is a census-designated place consisting of the northern two-thirds of the township and the Allendale ZIP code 49401 serves most of the township except for small areas along the southern boundary.

Enid's original plat in 1893 was 6 blocks wide by 11 blocks long consisting of the town square on the northwest end, West Hill ( Jefferson ) school on the south west end, Government Springs Park in the middle southern section, and East Hill ( Garfield ) school on the far north east corner.

* the other consisting of Nafusi ( excluding Zuwara and southern Tunisia ), Sokna ( El-Foqaha ), and Siwi.

They fall naturally into two geographical divisions: the northern group, consisting of Eiao, Hatutu ( Hatutaa ), Motu One, and the islands centered around the large island of Nuku Hiva: Motu Iti ( Hatu Iti ), Ua Pu, Motu Oa and Ua Huka, and the southern group of Fatu Uku, Tahuata, Moho Tani ( Motane ), Terihi, Fatu Hiva and Motu Nao ( Thomasset Rock ), clustered around the main island of Hiva ` Oa.

According to the Nagarakretagama ( Desawarñana ) written in 1365, Majapahit was an empire of 98 tributaries, stretching from Sumatra to New Guinea ; consisting of present day Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, southern Thailand, the Philippines, and East Timor, although the true nature of Majapahit sphere of influence is still the subject of studies among historians.

The Khanty language is a language belonging to the Ugric branch of the Uralic languages, consisting of ten dialects, divided into southern, northern and eastern subgroups, and closely related to the Mansi language.

* Götaland is the southern, most densely populated part, consisting of ten provinces