5 sentences with 'warlord'
Example sentences and phrases with the word warlord and other words derived from it.
• « Back in Italy, the Huns, under the leadership of the legendary warlord Attila, arrived in the late 440s, pushing to the gates of Rome in 451. »
• « Italy itself held out until 476, when an Ostrogothic ("Eastern Gothic") warlord named Odoacer deposed the last emperor and declared himself king of Italy; the Roman emperor of Constantinople (who had little choice) approved Odoacer's authority in Italy in return for a nominal pledge of allegiance. »
• « Even then, Mongol invasions, the later invasion of the Central Asian warlord Temur and constant infighting among Turkic tribes meant that Persia was rarely united as a state for more than a few decades; »
• « Ismail fused three distinct identities to promote his rule: he was a Turkish warlord, a Shi'ite Sufi pir and (he claimed) the heir to Persia's pre-Islamic political tradition. »
• « Safavid rule was revived by Shah Abbas I (r. 1587 - 1629). Placed on the throne as a puppet by his Turkish warlord "protector" in 1587, Abbas went on to seize royal power and used it to restore Iran's military, commercial and political strength. »