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Various ancient states, which could be called suzerains, exacted tribute from areas they had conquered or threatened to conquer.
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Various fragments of other works by Irenaeus have been found, and many lost works by him are attested by other ancient writers.
Various types of necked chordophones were in use in ancient Greek, Egyptian ( in the Middle Kingdom ), Hittite, Roman, Bulgar, Turkic, Indian, Chinese, Armenian / Cilician cultures.
Various calendars, martyrologies, etc., such as the ancient calendar of the saints of Sicily, number Stephen among the saints, and assign his feast to February 1.
The ruins of Harrappa were first described in 1842 by Charles Masson in his Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, where locals talked of an ancient city extending " thirteen cosses " ( about 25 miles ), but no archaeological interest would attach to this for nearly a century.
Various explanations have, therefore, been offered by ancient as well as modern scholars without, however, succeeding in furnishing a completely satisfactory solution.
Various new religious movements in the 20th and 21st centuries have been founded that venerate some of the deities found in ancient Mesopotamian religion.
Various clans of Tarkhan ( Punjab ), Lohar, Gujjar, Ahluwalia, Khatri, Rajput, Sonar, Lubana, Tonk Kshatriya / Chhimba tribes have a close genetic and ancestral relationship with each other, and together they are the descendants of ancient Kamboja / Kamboh / Kamboj tribe.
Various Thracian kings and chieftains were buried in elaborate mound tombs found in modern Bulgaria ; Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, was buried in a magnificent kurgan in present Greece ; and Midas, a king of ancient Phrygia, was buried in a kurgan near his ancient capital of Gordion
Various ancient items believed looted from the museum have surfaced in Jordan, Lebanon, the United States, Switzerland, and Japan, and on eBay.
Various legends trace coq au vin to ancient Gaul and Julius Caesar, but the recipe was not documented until the early 20th century ; it is generally accepted that it existed as a rustic dish long before that.
Various other ancient buildings are scattered between and around these four cities ; all of the sites are preserved in the “ Ancient Merv Archaeological Park ” just north of the modern village of Baýramaly and thirty kilometers east of the large Soviet-built city of Mary ( Herrmann 1993 ).
Various courtiers ' rock tombs at Amarna ( ancient Akhet-Aten, the city Akhenaten founded ) have similar prayers or hymns to the Aten or to the Aten and Akhenaten jointly.
* Various New Age assertions about Atlantis, Lemuria, and ancient root races derived from the writings of authors such as 19th-century channeller Helena Blavatsky.
Various meats and vegetables could be made into Gulai or Kari, a type of curry dish with variations of spices mixtures that clearly display Indian influence already adopted by Malay people since ancient times.
Various strategies and techniques were employed in Christianization campaigns from Late Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages: ancient holy sites were destroyed or converted to Christian churches, indigenous pagan gods were demonized, and traditional religious practices were condemned as witchcraft and even criminalized — sometimes upon penalty of death.
Various European ancient divination practices involve the interpretation of shadows cast by objects.
Various forms of hydrotherapy have been recorded in ancient Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Roman civilizations.
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Various international agreements known as the Vienna Conventions codified the rules and agreements, providing standards and privileges to all states.
Various states in the republic of India provide 12 years of compulsory school education based on national curriculum framework designed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training.
Various psychoactive substances ( both legal and illegal ) have been implicated in causing, exacerbating, and / or precipitating psychotic states and / or disorders in users.
Various small islands lie within the Persian Gulf, some of which are the subject of territorial disputes between the states of the region.
Various kingdoms and states paid tribute to the Tang court, while the Tang also conquered or subdued several regions which it indirectly controlled through a protectorate system.
Various organizations pushed for changing the legislative assembly from the current two-chamber system ( House and Senate ) prevalent in 49 of the 50 states of the nation to one-chamber ( unicameralism ).
Various phenomena throughout Greek history ( the extensive colonization by classical Greek city states, the vast expansion of Greek culture in Hellenistic times, the large dominions at times held by the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire, and the energetic trading activity by Greeks under the Ottomans ) all tended to create Greek communities far beyond the boundaries of modern Greece.
Various countries, colonies and states granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the 19th century.
Various States also have GBEs, especially with respect to the provision of water and sewerage ; however many state-based GBEs have been privatized in some states during the last decade of the twentieth century.
The US Department of State states that 98 percent of the Austrian population is ethnically German, while the CIA World Factbook contradicts this assertion by saying Austrians are a separate group ( see Various terms used for Germans ).
Various federal court decisions resulted in states ' creating districts to provide for some where the majority of the population were African Americans, rather than gerrymandering to exclude black majorities.
Various historical German states have used an equivalent title, Reichskommissar ( a compound of Reich and the German Kommissar ), for several administrators who held responsibility over a territory or area of government.
Various committees were then formed to draft a bill that was to become a civil law codification for the entire country, replacing the civil law systems of the states.
Various states, provinces or geographical areas organise their own state championships ( referred to in Australia as " Superleague "-not to be confused with the ill-fated Rugby League competition ).
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