6 sentences with 'southeastern'
Example sentences and phrases with the word southeastern and other words derived from it.
• « They were authorised by various popes not only to conquer and convert but to rule the peoples of the eastern Baltic and thus by the 13th century the Teutonic knights were in the process of conquering and ruling Prussia, parts of Estonia and a region of southeastern Finland and present-day Lithuania called Livonia. »
• « Suleiman conquered territories in southeastern Europe, including all of Hungary, and finally laid siege to the Habsburg capital, Vienna, in 1529. Although the siege failed, the empire now occupied a huge swathe of Europe. »
• « The Germans, however, needed supplies from the Balkans and southeastern Europe, including both food and natural resources such as oil. It would literally be unable to continue the war if the Allies succeeded in seizing these regions. »
• « Thus, Germany sent forces to the Balkans and Africa to support its Italian allies. By the spring of 1941, the Germans held all of southeastern Europe and had pushed the British back in Africa, which was a major victory for the Nazis, but also a delay in their plans. »
• « Hernando de Soto had participated in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca, and from 1539 to 1542 he led expeditions into what is now the southeastern United States in search of gold. »
• « The act called for the removal of the Five Civilised Tribes from their home in the southeastern United States to lands in the west, in present-day Oklahoma. »