While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

While pointing to an engagement between two kingdoms of the 7th century, it is debatable which kingdoms these may be and whether this battle is recorded in other historical records of Britain or England.

While the Scandinavist Richard Dybeck originally wrote the text with reference to the three Nordic kingdoms, later it was thought to apply mainly to the two united kingdoms Sweden and Norway.

While the south of the state was occupied by the Otomi kingdoms, its northern and central-west regions, where the city of San Luis now is located, were inhabited by chichimeca.

While Wessex had at times been obliged to recognise the overlordship of King Aethelbald of Mercia ( 716-57 ), it appears to have escaped the dominance of the Mercians thereafter, and was certainly not subject to the more intrusive forms of Mercian control imposed on other kingdoms.

While Vijayabahu's victory and shifting of kingdoms to the more strategic Polonnaruwa is considered significant, the real " Hero of Polonnaruwa " of the history books is actually his grandson, Parakramabahu I.

While the Western Roman Empire fragmented into numerous separate kingdoms, the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire survived until late in the Middle Ages.

While Scots law and Scottish legislation remained separate, new legislation for both former kingdoms was now dealt with by the new parliament.

While Alt Clud would recover its independence and re-emerge as a state, the kingdoms of Manaw Gododdin, Gododdin, and Rheged were permanently destroyed and disappear from the historical record.

While the initial generations may have been rooted in cultural traditions outside India, they gradually adopted many aspects from their kingdoms which retained the traditional Hindu culture.

While the wealthy Successor kingdoms in the East built huge warships (" polyremes "), Carthage and Rome, in the intense naval antagonism during the Punic Wars, relied mostly on medium-sized vessels.

While the storyline is still linear, ' Musou Mode ' is rather open-ended in the sense that depending on the user ’ s actions, different events will occur, such as unlocking new characters for use or new kingdoms.

While the usage " Late Antiquity " suggests that the social and cultural priorities of Classical Antiquity endured throughout Europe into the Middle Ages, the usage of " Early Middle Ages " or " Early Byzantine " emphasizes a break with the classical past, and the term " Migrations Period " tends to de-emphasize the disruptions in the former Western Roman Empire caused by the creation of Germanic kingdoms within her borders beginning with the foedus with the Goths in Aquitania in 418.

While some kingdoms were defeated militarily and occupied, others remained nominally independent as allies of the Roman empire.

While filled with biographical hypotheses and historical unlikelihoods, the book offers a vivid description of the Renaissance world, with the decline of the traditional Muslim kingdoms and the hope inspired by the Ottoman Empire, as it grew to threaten Europe and restore Muslim unity.

While India's many kingdoms and rulers issued coins, barter was still widely prevalent.

While the history of the Mandinka Wassoulou states remain unclear, the small kingdoms of Kenedugu and Wassulu existed from at least the 1650s CE, benefiting from gold mining and trade in the area.

While most of western Europe fell into a Dark Age after the decline of the Roman Empire, those kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula that today are known as Spain maintained their economy.

While the three Korean kingdoms were not always perpetual enemies, their alliances frequently shifted ; a kingdom would become allies with one of the other two, only to later turn against that kingdom and ( sometimes ) become allies with the other kingdom against whom it had fought earlier.

While this is the third adventure in the Bloodstone pass saga it is the first publication that places The Barony of Bloodstone and surrounding kingdoms in the Forgotten Realms campaign.

While he was successful at conquering the Kathmandu valley and the Sen kingdoms further east of the Kathmandu valley, his efforts were limited to the west of his homeland.

While the three kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley were engaged in clashes and enmity, Prithvi Narayan Shah used this opportunity to impose an economic blockade against the entire valley region.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

While in the East, he traveled to the Troad to perform rites at his brother's tomb, an event recorded in a moving poem.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While there, he studied world culture, including Islam and the Middle East.

While on the East Berlin side painting was not allowed, artists painted on the Western side of the Wall from the 80s until the fall of the Wall in 1989.

While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

While, the East Pakistan was established on the basis of country having the socialist system, and state secularism was proclaimed in 1954.

While East Malaysia is less populated and less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, chiefly oil and gas reserves.

While it had a significant presence in the Central Asia, it did not gain any significance in China and East Asia until modern missionaries from Europe and North America arrived in the 19th century.

While not linked to measurements of skin tone variation directly, dopachrome tautomerase ( DCT or TYRP2 rs2031526 ), melanocortin 1 receptor ( MC1R ) Arg163Gln ( rs885479 ) and attractin ( ATRN ) have been indicated as potential contributors to the evolution of light skin in East Asian populations.

While proso millet is not a member of the Neolithic Near East crop assemblage, it arrived in Europe no later than the time these introductions did, and proso millet as an independent domestication could predate the arrival of the Near East grain crops.

While the Alexandrian empire did not survive its creator's death intact, the cultural implications of the spread of Hellenism across much of the Middle East and Asia were to prove long lived as Greek became the lingua franca, a position it retained even in Roman times.

While the see of Constantinople became dominant throughout the Emperor's lands, the West looked exclusively to the see of Rome, which in the East was seen as that of one of the five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, " the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire.

While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East.

While the republican government was amenable to reparation payments or transfer of colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Jules Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense declared on 6 September that France would not " yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses.