The capital of the sultan of Borneo was bombarded and stormed, and the sultanwith his army routed.
This company had also received a grant from the sultan in October 1888, and its appearance on the coast was followed by grave disturbances among the tribes which had welcomed the British.
The extra-territorial jurisdiction granted by the sultan to various Powers was in 1907 transferred to Great Britain.
It was, however, some time before thesultan could be induced to confirm his title (September 1841).
He visited twice the capital of the sultan of Sala, and concluded a treaty with him, which had for one of its objects the expulsion of the sea-gypsies and other tribes from his dominions.
To this company the sultan made a further concession dated October 1888.
When I tackled Sultan I had my hand covered with it.
With a frightful roar Sultan sprang at the bars of the cage, glaring apparently not at Luke, but at the trainer.
A Mameluke Sultan is commonly meant; if any name is mentioned, it is the name of Saladin.
But the Rabbis, alarmed for the cause of Judaism, succeeded in obtaining his incarceration by the Sultan in a castle near Belgrade, where he died of colic in 1676.
An attack on Cairo proving disastrous, they concluded a truce with the Sultan in 1221.
The great Sultanmay have made use of the just or unjust complaint against Chiskiya for his own profit.
With the Sultan I have a hard time; I must visit him daily in the morning, and when he, or any of his children, or one of the women of his harem is suffering, I may not leave Cairo.
The Sultannevertheless decreed a persecution of the Jews of those provinces which had adhered to Alrui, and the Prince of the Captivity with difficulty appeased his wrath with a present of a hundred talents of gold.
At all events, David hoped to be placed on a safer footing, if he succeeded in appeasing the Sultan by gifts of money.
The Mongols or Tartars, under the Sultan Hulagu, had committed fearful ravages in the land a few years previously (1260).
Once, when the Ghuzz had been on a ravaging tour, the Seljuk Sultan Sinjar Shahin-Shah undertook an expedition against them (1153).
Nachmani entered Palestine a few years after the Mongols had been expelled from the country by the Sultan of Egypt.
The Sultan gave orders to the Caliph that he should inform the Jewish representatives in Bagdad, that, if they did not turn David Alrui from his purpose, he would put all the Jews of his empire to the sword.
Opposition of theSultan of Turkey to the Suez Railway, 126.
The fear lest the sultan should intervene gave an appearance of harmony to the policy of England and France, whose interests were too great to permit of any such interference.
But in 1864, when thesultan had sent a fleet to La Goulette to affirm his "rights" in Tunis, the French ambassador at Constantinople intimated that France declined to have Turkey for a neighbour in Algeria.
The sultan sent him back to the Christian camp, and he passed on to the Holy Land.
I have brought you here two grey horses that are worthy to bear the Sultan of the two worlds—pure Arab blood—this dark grey is of the Kohèil race, and the light grey a true Saklàwi.
Read it and consider: One prisoner, single and solitary, without assistant or defender, a foreigner and stranger imprisoned in the fortress of Akká writing such letters to the emperor of France and sultan of Turkey.
One of these was the sultan of the Ottoman kingdom.
The sultan of Turkey then banished Him to the prison of Akká in Syria.
The Sultan goes in state to the mosque every Friday, and when he is then passing through the streets his people may approach him to present petitions.
On arriving at the Seraglio the Sultan proceeds to the throne-room, and there receives all his great officers of state.
In the Imperial House, the throne descends in succession to each son of a deceased Sultan before any grandson can inherit.
A gallery ran round three sides of this apartment, portions of it being partitioned off for the use of the Sultan and of Turkish ladies.
In families of very high rank but few are to be seen, whilst in the households of the relatives of the Sultanthey are still more rare.
Amidst all the magnificence of this group the Sultanalone is dressed with simplicity.
Personal merit used to be a matter of comparative indifference to the Turks, provided the Sultan were a member of the great imperial family.
After Santa Sophia, the finest mosque in Constantinople is that of Sultan Ahmed.
Amongst the curiosities are shown the Bells of Santa Sophia when it was a Christian church, the ancient keys of Constantinople, and the gorgeous scimitar of Sultan Mahmoud.
Here it was that the Janissaries were put to death by the orders of Sultan Mahmoud.
Within a week of her death Sultan Mahmoud died, and his son ascended the throne.
Amongst the many lovely valleys that surround Constantinople, the two most perfectly charming are the Valley of the Sultan and that called by the Franks the Sweet Waters of Asia.
He had to leave the regiment because his father wouldn't pay his debts, and he has been selling his sword for the last three years to one or another king or sultan or party all over the world, in China and Madagascar, and later in Siam.
Think of them all alone down there bullied by that Sultan of Turkey, and wanting to be free and independent.
The German Emperor gave me this for designing a fort, and the Sultan of Zanzibar gave me this, and no one but the Sultan knows why, and he won't tell.
The Bulgaria of the San Stefano Treaty would have cut the European territories of the sultan in two, and thus effectively dismembered the Ottoman Empire.
They wanted a constitutional Turkey, under which all the subjects of the sultanshould be allowed to enjoy equal rights, regardless of creed or race.
Later, some years before the liberation of Bulgaria, the sultan gave the Bulgars the right to establish a church of their own.
When this army finally appeared outside the gates of Constantinople, the sultan and his soldiers realized that all was lost, but it was now too late to temporize again.
The sultan had decided to begin taking more severe measures with the Young Turks, with the result that he precipitated a crisis.
Sultan Orodes was too much indebted to the heroic prince, who had first placed the crown on his head and then cleared the land from the enemy, not to get rid of him as soon as possible by the executioner.
But for no one had the dice of fate turned up the highest gains and the greatest losses more frequently and more capriciously than for the old sultan of Sinope; and the fortunes of men change rapidly and incalculably in the east.
The dissensions which followed the death of the sultan Bibars (or Beybars) by whom Antioch had been taken, delayed the catastrophe which the nations of the West took no means to avert.
Acre becomes the chief commercial centre of the Phœnician coast and 1291 is taken by the sultan of Egypt, to whom other Syrian towns also submit.
The genius of Tamerlane prevailed in the memorable battle of Angora; the sultan lost at once his kingdom and his liberty, and the conqueror established himself at Kutahiyah.
The sultan Kalavun (Kalaoon) resumed the attack on the remains of the Christian kingdom.
During all this time indeed, as we learn from Darius’ great inscription, Persis had kings of its own; but these were simply vassals of the sultan who had his seat in Ecbatana.
His successor, Baldwin II, was taken prisoner in the year 1123, and the Sultan of Egypt was encouraged to attack Joppa with a fleet of ninety sail.
Vanni, to whom much was new, heard his expositions with curiosity, and the sultan also is said to have listened to his words attentively.
Two councilors and the sultana-mother are reported to have dissuaded the sultan from his design by the observation that the Jews ought to be regarded as having been misled.
Muley Ismail, sultan of Morocco, patron of the Jews, 168.
In the settlement of the Eastern Question, the latter could not afford to break with Austria, from which country the Sultan could obtain reinforcements more quickly than from France.
He wrote to Raphael Joseph acknowledging the receipt of the moneys sent by him, and begging him not to lose faith in Sabbatai; the latter would certainly in a year and some months make the sultan his subject and lead him about as a captive.
The sultan thought of destroying all the Jews in his empire, because they had formed rebellious plans, and of ordering all children under seven to be brought up in Islamism.
The physician represented to him the dreadful punishment that would inevitably befall him--he would be bound, and scourged through the streets with burning torches, if he did not appease the wrath of the sultanby adopting Islamism.
To the sultan and the mufti, on the other hand, he said that his approximation to the Jews was intended to bring them over to Islam.
When Sultan Ibrahim ascended the throne, a violent war broke out between Turkey and Venice, which made the trade of the Levant unsafe in the capital.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sultan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
