Tradition says that at a remote period a tribe of men, called the Gaulis or Gaulars, overran and conquered it.
In the 2nd century it was occupied by the Getae, a Thracian tribe, whom the Roman emperor Trajan conquered in 106; he then incorporated the region in the province of Dacia.
Returning to the Canaries in 1404 he found that Gadifer de la Salle had conquered Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and explored other islands.
The country was but partially conqueredand never justly ruled.
We may say, therefore, with an eminent Fernch historian, that "England owes her liberties to her having been conquered by the Normans.
All his life he was an invalid, but he learned to conquer disease, or at least to hold it in check, as he conquered his enemies.
In 1066 the Normans crossed the Channel, invaded the island, conquered its inhabitants, and seized the throne.
When the Saxons conquered Britain, many of the natives, who were of the same stock and spoke essentially the same language as the Irish, fled to that country.
The old grudge against France, which began with the feuds of Duke William of Normandy before he conquered England, made a war with that country always popular.
In the eleventh century the Normans, who sprang originally from the same stock as the Northmen and Saxons, conquered the island.
About the middle of the tenth century, one of Alfred's grandsons conquered the Dnaes, and took the title of "King of England.
These tribes which conquered England, and settled there, remained for a long time hostile to each other, but eventually, they united and came to be known as Anglo-Saxons or English.
They conquered a large part of the island, and in conquering regenerated it.
On the field of Marston Moor, Yorkshire, 1644, the north of England was conquered by Cromwell with his invincible little army.
You will conquer or you will be conquered in the struggle for life.
Neither does the modern citizen have to knock his rival down to overcome him; nowadays the enemy is conquered at the desk, in the factory, in the editor's office, in the laboratory.
During September, the allies gathered the spoils of war from the conquered city.
The Russians attacked and conquered the redoubts; Sir Colin Campbell, at the head of a body of infantry, took up a position in the plain.
Te Deum was sung in the churches, and the Russian armies acted as if on conquered territory.
With his small force he conquered Cawnpore, and drove the rebel Nana to Bithoor; but, alas!
French people of Quebec, inviting them to make common cause with them, and urging them to take up arms against the English, who had only recently conquered Canada.
He argued, that it was the custom of all conquering states to leave the conquered countries in the possession of their own laws.
It was alleged that the royal promise was held out to them that if they conquered the citizens they would be permitted to sack the city.
Both these risks he provided against with skill, and conquered them with resolution and energy.
It is Siegfried, too, who wins us a warrior maiden whom we would never have conquered alone, weak and nerveless men that we are.
For even though she had been forced to own herself conquered in the games, Brunhilde had never been willing to become Gunther's wife, or to go with him to his home across the sea.
The rich were supported by contributions from the provinces, since they were the great proprietors of conquered lands; the poor had no solicitude for a living, since they were supported at the public expense.
If the account of the historian be not exaggerated, Rameses must have enrolled the conquered Libyans and Arabians and other nations among his soldiers.
The Rhodian school was the immediate offshoot from the school of Lysippus at Sicyon; and from this small island of Rhodes the Romans, when they conquered it, carried away three thousand statues.
Ethiopia was first subdued, and an exaction made from the conquered of a tribute of gold, ivory, and ebony.
She conquered him, not merely by her display and her dazzling beauty, but by her wit.
The great consumption of leather created a demand far greater than could be satisfied by the produce of the country, and therefore skins from foreign countries were imported as part of the tribute laid on conquered nations or tribes.
Had Antony conqueredat Actium, the destinies of the empire might have been far different.
Then were displayed the arms and ensigns of conquered nations, the plate and wardrobe of the Syrian queen.
The early missionary could not appeal to military force or to an obviously superior type of civilization, and the wonder is not that Christianity conquered the Roman world but that it ever secured a foothold at all.
The gospel which conquered the Roman Empire was no syncretic product growing from Graeco-Roman soil, no melange of oriental religions and Greek philosophy, no cunningly devised fable or myth for the myth-loving Greeks.
While Didymus was listening to the excited populace, and the new-comer was gazing at the old man whose rigid obstinacy could scarcely be conquered by kindness, the younger men were looking at the beautiful woman who joined them.
He seemed as unstable as a swaying reed, because he had conquered his wish to re-enter old Didymus's house and encourage him, and passed on to his own home.
They have defied and conquered the lava, and lapillus, going always ahead there where duty called them.
It was a necessity that society should then take under its protection the conquered plebeian, a beggar without a roof; and a necessity that this protection should be converted into a new series of tortures.
Had he so soon conquered his affections, that he could associate with lier on terms of friendly intimacy?
At first her hand appeared to tremble, but a successful effort conquered that emotion, and the increasing flush upon her cheek alone proclaimed the agitation of her mind.
Had St. Eval so conquered pride as again to seek her love--would the blessing of her parents now sanctify her marriage?
This I can say, if I have had temptations I have conquered them.
Perhaps the severest moralists are those who have conquered their temptations.
King Eystein thus conquered Jamtaland by his wisdom, and not by hostile inroads, as some of his forefathers had done.
Canute the Great had conquered England by blows and weapons, and had a long struggle before the people of the land were subdued.
I, a blind man, may conquer them as well as they conquered me when I was asleep.
Richard the earl of Rouen was a son of Richard the son of William Long Spear, who was the son of Rolf Ganger, the earl who first conquered Normandy; and he again was a son of Ragnvald the Mighty, earl of More, as before related.
King Myrkjartan came to his assistance, and theyconquered a great part of the country, both Dublin and Dyflinnarskire (Dublin shire).
It has since come so far that King Canute rules over Denmark and England, and has conquered for himself a great part of Scotland.
This ancient "nose-tax" was also imposed by the Norsemen onconquered countries, the penalty for defaulters being the loss of their nose.
Towards spring both kings went westward with their army all the way to Ulster, where they had many battles, subdued the country, and had conquered the greatest part of Ulster when Myrkjartan returned home to Connaught.
King Canute then returned south to Denmark, after having conquered Norway without stroke of sword, and he ruled now over three kingdoms.
The earl has conquered with strong hand All that lies north of Viken land: In battle storm, and iron rain Hakon spreads wide his sword's domain.
Who has seen all Norway's land Conquered by one brave hero's hand?
His people, though," thought Roma, and so she conquered her repulsion.
Boys and women were climbing up every possible elevation, and a bright-faced girl who had conquered a high place on the base of the obelisk was chattering down at a group of her friends who were listening to their cicerone.
Though these brave men had conquered the wild beasts and barbarous red men, there were still other forces to meet.
In 1453, while this exchange was at its height, the Turks conquered Constantinople, seized the caravan routes, and ruined the trade.
Because he has conquered Armenia, he asks that it be left to him for Tiridates; if not, he will not yield it in any case.
And he went to the atrium quickly, so as not to let himself be conquered by emotion unworthy of a Roman and a general.
Here all began to talk, and to say what an unheard tragedy the picture of a city like that would be, a city which had conquered the world turned now into a heap of gray ashes.
Here and there they fought hand to hand; but the pretorians conquered the weaponless multitude easily.
Could the Romans cease to rule, or could they recognize a whole herd of conquered nations as equal to themselves?
The rich man will find a richer than himself; the greater glory of another will eclipse a man who is famous; a strong man will be conquered by a stronger.
On the contrary, God watches over her, He who Himself, conquered death.
Chedorlaomer has been identified from inscriptions with Khuder-lagomer, one of the kings of the Elamite dynasty, who conquered Chaldaea about 2300 B.
Then the rise of the Assyrian Empire, which crushed the Hittites and all surrounding nations, and twice conquered and overran Egypt.
Delta, and apparently without much resistance, conquered the whole of Lower Egypt up to Memphis, and reduced the princes of the Upper Provinces to a state of vassalage.
The name is singularly like that of Kuder-Na-hangti, who was the Elamite king who conquered Babylonia about 2280 B.
The first certain date is fixed by the annals of the Assyrian King Asshurbanipal, grandson of Sennacherib, who conquered Elam and destroyed its capital, Susa, in the year 645 B.
The inborn truth within her, the native generosity and candor that soon or late always overruled every other element in the Little One, conquered her now.
These strangers, having conquered the red men, had engraved marks on the rock, which is now covered by the waters of the river.
His army consisted of 2450 men of all ranks, the veterans who had conquered under Wolfe.
Upper Canada, down to the period when it was conqueredby England, was in a very wild and unreclaimed condition.
Many of the conquered were struck down by the English marksmen in the close bush-fight, and even a greater number perished in their hurried passage of the stream.
By her own prowess she must stand or fall, This grief is to be conquered day by day.
To see how much is conquered and repressed, How much is gained in victory at last!
Or possibly the conquered were more thoroughly subdued.
It would require strong proof before we could admit that the surviving conquered people obeyed them too.
We may perhaps concede that the Canaanites were Semitic and of the same race as those whoconquered Babylon and founded Hammurabi's Dynasty.
It does require proof, however, that these were invented, and not already the laws of the conquered race.
These were conquered by the Semites of Hammurabi's race.
Possibly because in proportion to the conquered the conquerors were relatively more numerous than in Babylonia.
Other estates were held of the king, on rent or tribute, the usual lot of conquered territory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conquered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
