9 sentences with “allied”

They allied with and, for a time, were ruled by a neighbouring people called the Etruscans who lived northwest of Rome.

As the centuries passed, Rome became increasingly dependent both on Germanic troops and on the allied tribes' confrontation with hostile ones.

The Etruscans ruled an empire of allied city-states that maintained an active trade with the Greeks, exchanging Italian iron for various luxury goods.

The Babylonians allied themselves with clans of mounted warriors in Persia called the Medes, and between them the Assyrian state was completely destroyed.

Both sides had sought allies outside Greece, and the Spartans eventually allied themselves with the Persians - once their hated enemies - in the latter stages of the war.

They allied themselves with other rich and powerful people, who owned large tracts of land, to try to keep the plebeians, Roman citizens who were not of patrician origin, at bay.

The fighting during this period was often desperate - Constantinople itself was besieged by an allied force of Avars and Persians at one point - but in the end Heraclius managed to pull the empire back from the brink.

Open war finally broke out between the two cities in 431 BC after two of their respective allied polis initiated a conflict and Athens tried to influence the political decisions of the Spartan allies. The war lasted from 431 to 404 BC.

During their own lifetimes Aragon and Castile remained independent of each other, though obviously allied, but the marriage ensured that Isabella and Ferdinand's daughter Joanna and her son Charles V came to rule over Spain as a single, unified kingdom.