6 sentences with 'heartland'
Example sentences and phrases with the word heartland and other words derived from it.
• « In 247 BC an ancient Seleucid general based in the Parthian region destroyed Seleucid control in the ancient heartland of Persia, in the process founding a new Persian empire (remembered as the Parthian Empire for the region its rulers originally ruled). »
• « Rome expanded eastwards during the same period, eventually conquering all of Greece, the heartland of the culture the Romans so admired and emulated. »
• « Numerous independent and rival Islamic kingdoms sprang up throughout the Middle East, North Africa and North India, leaving even the heartland of the Middle East vulnerable to foreign invasion, first by European crusaders from 1095 onwards, and most disastrously during the Mongol invasion of 1258 (under a grandson of Genghis Khan). »
• « Around 400 AD, the Romans left Britain. Their legions were needed to help defend the Roman heartland and Britain had always been an imperial frontier, with too few Romans to fully settle and 'civilise' it outside southern England. »
• « a ruling dynasty that saw itself as the heir to all the dynasties of the past (whether Persian, Macedonian or Turkic) and, most importantly, the establishment of the Shi'ite ulama as the official religious authorities of the empire. In short, from the Safavid period onwards, Persia was the heartland of Shia Islam. »
• « Ultimately, this greater tolerance and support for science would see the centre of scientific innovation in northwestern Europe, not in the heartland of the earlier Renaissance in Italy. »