Reconquest
"Reconquest" in a Sentence (5 examples)
the reconquest of Spain
On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
Many excellente parſonages are condemned in Englande, beinge wholy reconqueſted to the Pope.
The tables being taken vp, the Emperoꝛ pꝛaid the king of Theſſalie to retire himſelfe to the Queen his deare wife, ſéeing the time did then require to be a little together without any beholders to ſtand by. Whervnto he willingly accoꝛded, as well to gratifie him therein, as to quench the deſire which might ſtirre him foꝛward to reconqueſt the place, […]
There is no doubt that Ravenna, as an imperial capital (fifth century) and as the Byzantine provincial capital (sixth-seventh centuries), had its influence, whether it was through the Arianism introduced with the conquest of Theodoric, or through the influences of the Byzantine Empire after being reconquested by Belisarion the Byzantine until it fell to the Lombards in 751.
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