8 sentences with “administrative”

Mosques were also often attached to administrative offices and government functions.

Bishops also moved in administrative circles, representing not only the church but their cities in actions and petitions before governors and assemblies.

Heraclius created a new administrative system to try to defend the remaining Byzantine territory: the themata (or themata, administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire).

The main purpose of these administrative capitals was to extract taxes and other wealth from local areas and channel it back to Rome, but they also served as genuine cultural centres.

In France, a series of kings named Philip (I to IV) ruled from 1060 to 1314, building a strong administrative apparatus complete with royal judges who were directly beholden to the crown.

The pharaohs divided Egypt into two administrative regions: Upper Egypt, which ran up the Nile and ruled from the city of Thebes, and Lower Egypt, near the Nile delta, where it flowed into the Mediterranean and ruled from the city of Memphis.

Only because of the success of the division by themmas (or themata, administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire) were Byzantine losses not much worse, considering the strength of their foreign enemies. Over time, the thémas became self-sufficient military systems.

In essence, the system of thémas (or themata, administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire) was a return to the old form of military conscription that had been so successful during the days of the Roman Republic: free citizens providing their own arms, thus relieving some of the financial burden on the state. At their peak, the thémas supported an army of 300,000 men (comparable to the Roman army under Augustus), with the financial burden evenly distributed throughout the empire.