Thus the parliament consists of 500 appointed members altogether, where all are indirectly elected by state legislatures to serve six-year terms.

" Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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

Thus, for example, if a pope's reign commenced on 1 August and he died on 2 August, this would count as having reigned for two calendar days.

Thus, just as the later history of the Romans is sometimes called " the reign of the Caesars ," the early history of the Nephites could be called " the reign of the Nephis.

Thus in the Gigantomachy, the Moirai and Heracles, having joined the Olympians, defeated the Giants and quelled the rebellion, confirming their reign over the earth, sea, and heaven, and confining the Giants into Tartarus.

Thus, Lucas de Tuy, writing in the late thirteenth century, portrays a monster, while Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, rectifying the disparate accounts, shows Wittiza commencing his reign with promise and evolving into an tyrant.

" ( Thus, today Chinese people often refer to her as Wu Mei or Wu Meiniang ( 武媚娘 ) when they write about her youth, whereas they refer to her as Empress Wu ( 武后 ) when referring to her as empress and empress dowager and Wu Zetian ( 武則天 ) when referring to her reign as " emperor.

Thus, a reign usually lasts until the monarch dies, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates or is deposed.

As he writes in his English adaptation Sound and Symbol in Chinese ( 1923 ), Chapter I: " Thus, though Chinese traditions give no hint whatever of an immigration from any foreign country, and though there consequently is no external chronological point d ' appui, we are nonetheless able to state, from internal evidence, that the Chinese tradition which places the reign of the emperor Yao in the twenty-fourth century B. C.

Thus, although armored riders were used in the Roman army as early as the 2nd century BC ( Polybios, VI, 25, 3 ), the first recorded deployment and use of cataphracts ( equites cataphractarii ) by the Roman Empire comes in the 2nd century AD, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian ( 117-138 AD ), who created the first, regular unit of auxiliary, mailed cavalry called the ala I Gallorum et Pannoniorum catafractata.

Thus the capital was shifted to Lahore so that Akbar could have a base in the less stable part of the empire, before moving back Agra in 1598, where he had begun his reign as he shifted his focus to Deccan.

) Thus ended the reign of an emperor who suffered much and under whose reign the Jin dynastic system came crashing down, even though he himself should probably not be blamed for it.

Thus, during the reign of Imam al-Mahdi ( died 934 CE ), and the next two Imams, Imam al-Qaim and Imam al-Mansur, they ruled over considerable parts of North Africa and Sicily, and launched two unsuccessful expeditions against Egypt.

Thus a fetva was issued and Abd-ul-Hamid II's long reign was at an end.

Thus, in the high chronology, Amenhotep I is given a reign from around 1546 to 1526 BC and, in the low chronology, from around 1526 to 1506 BC or 1525 to 1504 BC, though individual scholars may vary by a few years.

Thus, James I added sixty-two peers to a body that had included just fifty-nine members at the commencement of his reign.

Thus, albeit never a rallying point for English discontent during the early part of Henry III's reign, Eleanor was still put under semi-captivity, or " under a gentle house arrest ", no matter how much ransom the Bretons would pay.

Thus, The Fabulous Moolah's reign is considered to have lasted 27 years by the promotion.

Thus began the reign of the Imperial Gurjar-Pratiharas.

Thus such records have survived for the reign of Edward III of England preceding the Battle of Sluys in 1340.

Thus, Charles II was able to rule for the last four years of his reign without calling a Parliament.

Thus, after a stormy reign of between six and seven years, al-Muktafi could look around and find the Caliphate more secure than it had been since the days of al-Mu ' tasim.

Thus, an emissary to the Ottoman Empire could expect to be arrested and imprisoned upon the outbreak of hostilities between their State and the empire.

Thus, Egypt was by Ottoman law de jure a province of that empire, but de facto was part of the British Empire.

Thus, the Roman Empire had several mystery religions which emphasized initiation.

Thus, the electors were among the most powerful princes in the Empire.

Thus, Christianity acquired an identity distinct from Rabbinic Judaism, but this distinction was not recognised all at once by the Roman Empire, see Split of early Christianity and Judaism for details.

Thus ( Gaius ) Julius Caesar adopted his sister's grandson, Gaius Octavius, who became a Julius, eventually named Imperator Caesar Augustus, normally called in English Augustus, the founder of the Empire.

Thus, the motif of " slavery in Egypt " reflects the historical situation of imperialist control of the Egyptian Empire over Canaan after the conquests of Ramesses II, which declined gradually during the 12th century under the pressure from the Sea Peoples and the general Bronze Age collapse.

Thus, on November 28, 1821, the national assembly was convened and it was officially declared ( through Fábrega, who was invested with the title of Head of State of Panama ) that the isthmus of Panama had severed its ties with the Spanish Empire and its decision to join New Granada and Venezuela in Bolivar's recently founded Republic of Colombia.

Thus, in the pre-Buddhist times ( 7th / 6th c BCE ), the parts of modern Tajikstan including territories as far as Zeravshan valley in Sogdiana formed parts of ancient Kamboja and the Parama Kamboja kingdoms when it was ruled by Iranian Kambojas till it became part of Achaemenid Empire.

Thus Britain had both a formal Empire based on British rule and an informal one based on the British pound.

Thus a new period in Belarusian history started, with all its lands annexed by the Russian Empire, in a continuing endeavor of Russian tsars of " gathering the Rus lands " started after the liberation from the Tatar yoke by Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia.

Thus he presented himself as the fountainhead of the Empire and Roman life and religion.

Thus, it is not surprising that people left Alsace, not only for Paris – where the Alsatian community grew in numbers, with famous members such as Baron Haussmann – but also for more distant places like Russia and the Austrian Empire, to take advantage of the new opportunities offered there: Austria had conquered lands in Eastern Europe from the Ottoman Empire and offered generous terms to colonists as a way of consolidating its hold on the new territories.

Thus, Regensburg was one of the central towns of the Empire, attracting visitors in large numbers.

Thus, by the time of the Roman Empire, a sophist was simply a teacher of rhetoric and a popular public speaker.

Thus, the Low Countries consisted of fiefs whose sovereignty resided with either the Kingdom of France or the Holy Roman Empire.

Thus, the " Western Civilization ", comprising all the nations that have existed in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, was treated as a whole, and distinguished from both the " Orthodox " civilization of Russia and the Balkans, and from the Greco-Roman civilization that preceded it.

Thus the Commonwealth elected Henry, rather than Habsburg candidates, partly in order to be more agreeable to the Ottoman Empire ( a traditional ally of France through the Franco-Ottoman alliance ), and thereby strengthening a Polish-Ottoman alliance which was also in effect.

Thus, the Empire is definitively defeated, and the Rebellion liberates most of the galaxy.

Thus once again Württemberg became a direct fief of the Empire, securing its independence.

Thus, the essential points of the controversies regarding the Hinomaru flag and " Kimigayo " are whether they express praise or condemnation to the Empire of Japan and whether the Empire of Japan ( pre-1945 ) and postwar Japan ( post-1945 ) are the same states or different states.

Thus, unusually for a Governor-General within the Empire, he never gained the prefix ' The Right Honourable ' nor the post-nominals ' P. C.

Thus, on 25 July 1261, with most of the Latin troops away on campaign, the Nicaean general Alexios Strategopoulos found an unguarded entrance to the city, and entered it with his troops, restoring the Byzantine Empire for his master, Michael VIII Palaiologos.