7 sentences with 'deposed'

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« In 493, Odoacer was deposed and assassinated by another Ostrogothic king, Theodoric, but the link with Constantinople remained intact. »
« However, even the most powerful and assertive popes had to be realistic about the limits of their power, and many popes were deposed or even assassinated in the midst of political turmoil. »
« For some fifty years, Byzantium (now reduced to a fraction of its former size) was ruled by a Catholic king. Even when the king was deposed and a Greek dynasty was restored, nothing could be done to regain the lost territory. »
« 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. »
« After the city of Montevideo was taken, Artigas asked for the weapons handed over by the deposed ruler to be placed at his disposal and for Alvear's army to return to Buenos Aires. He obtained the latter in March 1815, when the Montevideo government gave him the arms and the Buenos Aires forces left. »
« From the outset, it was thought that the new rulers in Buenos Aires would meet with resistance in Upper Peru, Paraguay and Montevideo, not so much because they supported the deposed viceroy as because they did not accept the predominance of Buenos Aires. This had been foreseen as early as 25 May 1810, when it was proposed that a military expedition be sent to the interior provinces. »
« Neither the metropolitan Spaniards nor the Americans accepted the new situation. While in America loyalty to the deposed King Ferdinand was reiterated, in Spain the armed struggle against the French invader began. Given the lack of legitimate authority, government juntas were formed in the Spanish regions not yet occupied by Napoleon's troops. In September 1808 they were all unified in the Central Junta of Seville. »

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