6 sentences with 'centred'
Example sentences and phrases with the word centred and other words derived from it.
• « Along with their neighbours the Hebrews, the most important of the ancient Canaanites were the Phoenicians, whose cities (politically independent but united in culture and language) were centred in modern-day Lebanon. »
• « The Prophetic Movement attacked both polytheism and the Yahwist establishment centred on the Temple in Jerusalem (they blamed the latter for ignoring the plight of the common people and the poor). »
• « Of these, the most important was the creation of the polis: a political unit centred on a city and including the surrounding lands. »
• « Roman archbishops could thus argue that the Christian church itself was centred in Rome, and that they inherited the spiritual keys of heaven upon taking office - this concept was known as the "Petrine Succession". »
• « The Umayyad clan created the first lasting and stable Muslim state: the Umayyad Caliphate. It was centred in Syria and lasted for almost 100 years. It oversaw the consolidation of the achievements of Arab armies to date, along with vast new conquests in North Africa and Spain. »
• « Instead, what is clear in historical retrospect is that the first centuries of Ottoman rule had been so successful in creating a political culture centred in Constantinople that the empire remained intact regardless of what happened in Constantinople: trade flowed, local elites prospered and there was little sign of dissent in the vast expanse of Ottoman territory. »