Sentences with phrase «dynasty which»

This garden appears to have been strongly influenced by Chinese landscape painting of the Song Dynasty which feature mountains rising in the mist, and a suggestion of great depth and height.

Over the last ten years, the artist has studied the ancient techniques of the Venini glass dynasty which was founded in Murano in 1921 by the «grandfather» Paolo Venini.

With Dodge's introduction to Mexico during that time, it was badged as a Dodge, replacing the Dynasty which had been sold there under the Chrysler brand.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 1911 (Unrated) Jackie Chan directed and stars in this historical drama recounting the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty which led to the founding of the Republic of China.

Set in modern times but with a touch of medieval influences, Final Fantasy XV focuses on Noctis Lucis Caelum, the prince of a dynasty which rules a city state that has the last remaining crystal.

Almoravid — a Berber dynasty which established its rule in Morocco and most of Moorish Spain, ruling from 448 to 541 (A.D. 1056 - 1147).

Fatimid — Shi`a dynasty which at one time extended its rule from Syria to Morocco and governed Egypt and Syria from 297 to 567 (A.D. 909-1171).

The dynasty which he established lived up to the tradition of the Meccan aristocracy with some notable feats of constructive statesmanship.

Abu Ali - Abbas al - Saffah assumed the title of Caliph, beginning a new dynasty which held the Caliphate for five hundred years.

Some two centuries later the governers of Transoxiana declared their independence and founded the Samanid dynasty which ruled an area beginning with the Oxus river and extending eastward with indefinite boundaries.

After more than two hundred and fifty years of rule by the Shi'a Fatimid dynasty, Egypt was once more governed by a Turkish ruler, Salah - al - Din Ibn Ayyub (known as Saladin), the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty which lasted from 565 to 650 (A.D. 1169 - 1252).

The great mosque at Damascus is still called the Umayyad Mosque after the dynasty which established it.

The dynasty which laid the permanent foundations of Muslim rule in North India was that of the Ghorids, rulers of a small mountainous state in Afghanistan.

Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal of the worlds; (3) the genealogy of the gods and the ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the sun or the moon.

The story of the dynasties which derive from the Seljuqs is inextricably involved in the resurgence of active hostilities with Christendom.

was of critical importance in the Islamic community which was at that time organized around the three Caliphates — the Umayyad of Cordova, the Fatimid of Cairo, and the Abbasid of Baghdad — together with the various provincial dynasties which had grown up.

Not exact matches

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

The New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and Chicago Bulls all have had dynasty years which extended their marketing advertising reach far beyond their geographic regions.

Lucknow had long been the seat of a Shi'a ruling dynasty before the coming of the British and was noted for Shi'a fanaticism which was much more pronounced than that found among the other Indian Shi'as.

The Slave Dynasty was an oligarchy of Turks which jealously kept the doors shut against the non-Turks.

It was during their dynasty that Timur invaded northern India in 801 (A.D. 1398) and created chaotic conditions which weakened the control from Delhi.

In this connection it must be noticed that this knowledge, which we know is unknown to us, does not stand in the same relation to contemporary man as, for example, the history of the 15th Dynasty in Egypt did to Leibniz.

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

We also, I insist upon reminding everyone, move on in world in which we do not get to see how the Hussein dynasty would have developed.

(A stronger version of this, which killed or imprisoned the entire inner circle and most top Baathists, would amount to «dynasty change,» but because it would assume the emergence of another strongman, likely from the ranks of Baathist officers, it would not be regime change.)

Persian empire which resulted in the overthrow of the Parthian dynasty by the Sassanian dynasty in AD 226.

The delicious realms of flowers count their dynasties by short periods; those which in the morning revel proudly in beauty and strength, by evening weep for the sad destruction of their thrones, and for the mishaps which drive them to loss, to poverty, to death, and to the grave.

When you hit the 26th Dynasty there are actual contracts of servitude available from about 600 BC which are in stark contrast with the harsh African Slave trade.

I don't know much about either of the Billy Graham offspring, but, IMO, dynasties in either politics or religion are generally not positive — too much inherited prestige, power and privilege, which tends to feed egoistic narcissism.

With the Babylonian conquest it is absorbed into the all - embracing empire of the Middle East, which under various dynasties persisted through many centuries of the ancient world.

The ways in which our neighbors lived and thought were as unmodern as those of the Han dynasty 2,000 years before.

A brilliant achievement of Sumer was the impulse given to the Stone - Age cultures of Egypt, which, soon after 3000 B.C., responded with the sudden upward surge of the first dynasties and then the majesty and enduring wonder of the Pyramid age, great in its architecture and engineering, notable for the realism and yet the impassive dignity of its art, and memorable for the brilliance and varied richness of its thronging life.

The advent of a native dynasty was accompanied by the end of the large share which foreigners had in the administration of the land and possibly by the decline of foreign merchant communities.

His son, Shah Isma`il, was the founder of the Safavid dynasty in Iran which made Shi`a the official religion of the country.

These arose partly from the fact that the Manchu Dynasty, then ruling the Empire, was beginning to show the first signs of the disintegration which was to end it over a century later and, as one of these symptoms, was timorous of anything which carried the least flavor of rebellion.

In Egypt the first dynasty ruled by a Turk was the Tulunid dynasty established by Ahmad Ibn Tulun in 255 (A.D. 868), which lasted for only thirty - seven years.

It was followed by a period of useless civil wars, after which Sultan Mehmed I restored the power of the dynasty.

During the Ming dynasty — which ruled almost three centuries, from 770 to 1054 (A.D. 1368 - 644)-- the Muslims made many great contributions to the life of China, and Islam gained its rightful place as a popular religion.

The Ming dynasty may be called the golden age of Muslims in China, for long years of peace and prosperity brought a flowering of art and culture in which the Muslims participated.

The great Iranian historian, Rashidu'd - Din Fadlu» llah, in his remarkable history Iami'u» t - Tawarikh — the first volume of which deals with the history of the Mongols — tells us that «China during the Mongolian dynasty of Kublai Khan was administered in twelve districts, with a governor and vice-governor in each.

Emporer of Qing Dynasty was Manchu which has called themselves Servants and later brothers of Ming Dynasty of China.

Later on, people don't like him so much so he kills them all with a global flood (through which an Egyptian dynasty miraculously survives).

The Ch» in Dynasty was short - lived, but it was followed by the Han Dynasty, which with a brief interruption was in power from 206 B.C. to A.D. 214.

For this reason, and others which shall presently be noted, and because the weight of possible evidence in support of a fifteenth - century date becomes less and less substantial, we prefer to take the «new king over Egypt» to be just that and not the inauguration of a new dynasty.

The vast movement of religious revival which took place in the fifth century of the Hijrah (eleventh century A.D.) and led to the establishment of the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco and Spain gave a strong impetus to the spread of Islam among the subjects of the great pagan African Ghana Empire, whose sway extended at one time over the gold mines of the Upper Senegal and over the majority of the Berber tribes of the Sahara.

This foreign intervention eventually sparked the Maccabean revolt in 167BC which was the origin of the Hasmonean dynasty of High Priest political leaders which survived until the Romans intervened with the appointment of King Herod the Great (37 - 4BC).

Almohad — North African dynasty, 524 - 667 (A.D. 1130 - 1269), which supplanted the Almoravids and at one time ruled Moorish Spain and all of North Africa to the borders of Egypt.

Arab rule during the hundred years of the Umayyad dynasty brought many elements of Arab culture to Georgia and Armenia, which were incorporated either by choice or by force.

By the mid-tenth century, the Georgians had rebelled against the Persians and gained autonomous rule, creating the Georgian Kingdom, which one hundred years later was ruled by the Armenian Bagrationi dynasty.

In a dynasty point league, which do you think ends up with more value?