It suffered much during the 16th century from the hordes of Ottomans who then ravaged the country.
Some years ago the grapevines wereravaged by a disease.
Kamakura has been sacked by warfare, racked by volcanoes, and ravaged by fires on various occasions, but for 600 years the great image has remained in the same position.
The Church suffered severely from the incursions of the Northmen who ravaged the coasts, burning churches and monasteries, robbing them of their sacred vessels, and carrying off the unfortunate people captive.
Spain was overrun and ravagedby the Visigoths, the Sueves, the Alans, and the Vandals, all Arians.
During his sojourn at Loreto, a terrible famine ravaged Southern Italy.
After Charlemagne had ravaged the country for two years, he offered terms of peace.
The provinces of France were ravaged by war, and all the evil passions of wicked men were let loose; but Colette walked through all dangers, relying on Divine protection, and never relying in vain.
Can religion, then, be even more withering than science, since it has ravaged you like that, while I have yet remained an old madman, still full of fancies?
The department of Bouches-du-Rhône has for a month past been ravaged by commissions.
All the war-ravaged countries have lost a material part of their present generation.
Only ten days after the armistice he left for Europe, at the request of the President, to direct the participation of the United States in the imperatively needed relief of the war-ravaged countries of Eastern Europe.
Without obstruction he crossed the Apennines, ravaged the fertile plains of Umbria, and reached the city, which for four hundred years had not been violated by the presence of a foreign enemy.
When William the Conqueror ravaged the northern counties with fire and sword, a considerable proportion of the population must have perished.
Early in the following year it was retaken by Edward III, who proclaimed himself the successor of Balliol, and mercilessly ravaged the Lowlands.
Hertford, abandoning the usual methods of English invaders, came by sea, took Leith, burned Edinburgh, and ravaged the Lothians.
Lord Dacre ravaged the borders, and the Scots replied by a raid into England; but there is nothing of any interest to relate.
Fife took his men into the western counties and ravaged Cumberland and Westmoreland, but without any important incident.
But all efforts to avoid war were of no avail, and in September, 1496, James marched into England, ravaged the English borders, and returned to Scotland.
After he had ravaged Galilee and Gilead, he finally concluded a peace with Samaria conditionally on his receiving the head of King Pekah and a considerable yearly tribute.
In the fifth year of Rehoboam Judah and Jerusalem were ravaged by Pharaoh Shishak (1Kings xiv.
But I never felt the grand meaning of forests as I felt them to-day, in this ravaged and tortured land.
But the sight gave me the same kind of icy shock I had when I first saw the moon's ravaged face through a huge telescope.
Perseus, on hearing of the approach of the AEtolians, having raised the siege of the city in which he was employed, and having ravaged the country, quitted Amphilochia, and returned into Macedon.
The country of the Dolopians was ravaged by you in person.
But an account brought him, of the sea-coast beingravaged by a number of the enemy's barks, checked his efforts.
They, having ravaged the sea-coast of Chios, returning with booty of every kind, betook themselves to flight when they saw the fleet on the open sea.
The Ligurians, a nation ever vanquished, yet ever rebelling, ravaged the lands of Luna and Pisae; and at the same time there were alarming rumours of disturbances in Gaul.
The other consul, Marcus AEmilius, ravaged with fire and sword the lands of the Ligurians, together with their villages that stood in the plains, while the inhabitants remained posted on two mountains, Ballista and Suismontium.
Jugurtha, in two battles, and ravaged all Numidia.
Antiochus, having learned that the Romans and Eumenes were come to protect Adramyttium, made no attempt on that city, but ravaged the country adjoining.
The slaves were sent to their masters, and the free were permitted to return to their ravaged homes.
Jealousy and hatred enter the flowery home, and it is ravaged of its loveliness.
Cumberland District, ravaged by Indians; the settlers retaliate; rapid growth of.
The road first passes through ravaged woods, finally reaching the plateau crossed by N.
He fully lived up to his official title of Ruler of the World, and it is more than likely that by the aid of this secret compound he broke the back of the turbulent, selfish baronage which had ravaged the papal states for centuries.
The county was dragooned and the Highland hostravaged wherever it went.
The ravaged settlements of the Chioggie, Brondolo, Pelestrina and Albiola were rebuilt, and a new Heraclea, called Citta nuova, rose on the ruins of the old capital.
The course of the avengers through the eastern seas was marked by the ravaged cities of the Greek islands spoiled of their wealth and bewailing their captive sons and daughters.
He lets loose another set of ravagers and inquisitors upon them, under Gunga Govind Sing, and these poor people areravaged by the whole tribe of Calcutta banians.
He had ravaged the country, without obtaining any benefit for his masters: the British soldiers having divided the only spoil, and nothing remaining for the share of his employers but disgrace.
While he ravaged Glenorchy and Glenstrea Monk detached a brigade to keep them moving, and Middleton began to see the end was near.
Have you not often been the accomplice of the brigands who ravaged that unfortunate city!
Several times heravaged the coasts of Languedoc and Provence with impunity.
Perhaps he is one of those brigands who ravaged all this coast last year.
