6 sentences with 'encompassed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word encompassed and other words derived from it.
• « The Roman Empire encompassed most of England as far as Germany and Romania, all of North Africa from present-day Morocco, and extended to the borders of the Persian Empire. »
• « The word 'Viking' was used by the Vikings themselves - it either meant 'raider' or was a reference to the Viking region that encompassed parts of Norway and Sweden. »
• « The Mongol horde often devastated the lands it conquered. Some, like the Central Asian kingdom of Khwarizm, were so devastated that the areas it encompassed never fully recovered. »
• « This was the Inca empire, also a relatively young state that encompassed territory along the Andes as far as present-day Chile, Ecuador and Peru. »
• « The Catalans' enthusiasm for business dates back to the 14th century, when the Catalan/Aragonese federation dominated much of the Mediterranean and traded gold in the part of Africa south of the Sahara. Catalan merchants prospered in that federation, which encompassed the entire eastern quadrant of present-day Spain, a section of France, the southern half of Italy, the Balearic Islands, Sardinia and Sicily. »
• « By 1848, the United States encompassed much of North America, a republic stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. »