7 sentences with 'remnants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word remnants and other words derived from it.
• « The last remnants of Persian troops were expelled from the Greek islands in 469 BC, some ten years after the great Greek victories of the Persian War, but Athens refused to allow any of the League members to give it up after the victory. »
• « However, the Seleucid kingdom held out until its remnants were defeated in 63 BC by Pompey the Great of Rome, a former ally and later enemy of Julius Caesar. »
• « Once the last remnants of Roman power west of the Balkans died out at the end of the 5th century CE, the history of Europe shifted to the period still referred to as 'medieval', meaning 'middle' (between). »
• « King Clovis killed both the chiefs of other clans who threatened him and his own relatives who might take over the Merovingians. He then expanded his territories and defeated the last remnants of Roman power in Gaul in the late 5th century. »
• « The Northern Crusades were, in some ways, as important as the crusades to the Holy Land in that they were responsible for the extinction of the last remnants of paganism in Europe - it actually disappeared by the end of the 14th century in Lithuania, Estonia and Livonia - and for the conquest of a large territory that would one day be a fundamental part of Germany itself: Prussia. »
• « Much of northern Italy's prosperity was based on the commercial ties (not just mercantile practices) that Italy maintained with the Middle East, which in the 14th century meant both the remnants of the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the emerging power in the east. »