Commandery

Word COMMANDERY
Character 10
Hyphenation com mand er y
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "commandery" in example sentences

His commandery is a pleasant one, and well situated on the slopes of the hills; and the fresh air will, doubtless, speedily set you up. ❋ Unknown (1867)

First of all, although central officials were assigned to these posts, they sometimes did not enter the designated commandery or county. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 618, the frontier commandery of Nanning was established. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is the so-called frontier commandery system (bianjun zhidu) of the Han Dynasty. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 112 BCE, when the Han conscripted the Yelang to join the campaign against the Southern Yue Kingdom, the king of Qielan killed the Han envoys and the governor of Jianwei commandery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His territory was placed under the new commandery of Yizhou. 23 By the end of the second century BCE, Han China had reached central Yunnan and part of west Yunnan, thus dividing the Southwestern Barbarian area into the four commanderies of Jianwei, Zangke, Yuexi, and Yizhou. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The idea of "rule based on native customs" was applied to create distinctive offices and infrastructure in frontier areas, for example, the frontier commandery system in the Han times, and the jimi system in the Tang period. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the medals included a homemade iron cross with the head of Woodrow Wilson in the middle, pounded out by a blacksmith in Mobile, Alabama; a Knights Templar Ascalon commandery badge, which was a green Maltese cross edged in gold given to members of this Christian group whose ancestors had fought in the Crusades; and an iron shamrock against a backdrop of four pennies mounted on red, white, and blue ribbons. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)

Mr. Painter has taken about all the upright, regular steps in Masonry, having gone up through blue lodge, Royal Arch chapter and Knights Templar commandery on the York Rite side and to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. ❋ DAVID McCULLOUGH. (2005)

He who commands at present, having no estate of his own, enjoys a small commandery, which being added to his appointments at Nice, make the whole amount to about five hundred pounds sterling. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hugues and Catherine visited the St Clair estates close to Rosslyn and established there the first Templar commandery in Scotland, which became their headquarters. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2004)

With the decline of the Qin, the governor of one commandery in 208 B.C.E. conquered Au Lac and renamed the new entity under him Nam Viêt. ❋ Unknown (2001)

A fourth commandery at Xuantu (Hyndo) was established. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Shortly after the withdrawal of the Mongols and Kory's support of the Ming, the latter moved to establish a commandery on Kory soil. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Her father had been a gentleman of the masters of writing and a prefect under the Han, and her younger brother Cheng [omission: Chinese characters] became a commandery administrator and was well known for writing a history of the Later Han. 36 Associating themselves with the Xies had obvious legitimating benefits for the Suns, whose reputation was based on military exploits and who were considered rather unrefined. ❋ Unknown (1999)

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