9 sentences with 'occupied'
Example sentences and phrases with the word occupied and other words derived from it.
• « The Danish king, Christian IV, entered the war in 1625 to bolster the Protestant cause, but his armies were crushed and Denmark was briefly occupied by Catholic forces. »
• « Many sincerely believed that monsters occupied the interiors of Africa and Asia, and apart from Marco Polo, no European had made the journey to the Far East and returned to tell the tale. »
• « The Bulgarians were consistently able to defeat the Byzantine armies and occupied territory taken from the Byzantine Empire, yet Boris I chose to convert (and insist that his followers do so as well) to Christianity. »
• « To be clear, non-Muslims occupied a secondary social and legal position in Ottoman society, but still enjoyed far better status and treatment than religious minorities in the Christian kingdoms of Europe at the time. »
• « Suleiman conquered territories in southeastern Europe, including all of Hungary, and finally laid siege to the Habsburg capital, Vienna, in 1529. Although the siege failed, the empire now occupied a huge swathe of Europe. »
• « Muslim empires surrounding Byzantium occupied its territory until Constantinople finally fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. With that, the last vestige of Roman civilisation, founded more than 2,000 years earlier on the banks of the Tiber River in Italy, ceased to exist as a political reality. »
• « An elite class of administrators occupied a social position similar to that of the ancient Egyptian scribes and were educated in Christianised versions of Greek and classical learning; a scholar named Photius produced an encyclopaedia of ancient Greek writings which is the only record of many texts that would otherwise have been lost forever. »
• « The caliph's palace was so huge that it occupied one-third of Baghdad. He and the greatest European king of the early Middle Ages, Charlemagne, exchanged gifts and friendly letters, albeit for political expediency: Charlemagne was the enemy of the Cordovan Caliphate of Spain, the last vestige of Umayyad power, and the Abbasids acted as an external pressure which Charlemagne hoped would make the Byzantine emperors recognise the legitimacy of his imperial title. »
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