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Tso-lin, “Old Marshal”) a Chinese warlord who dominated Manchuria ... in 1928, he succeeded him as the strongest warlord in Manchuria. In December ...

Kong Rong (153 – 208) was a bureaucrat, poet, and minor warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was ...

Unfortunately, Cao Cao, a warlord and the Chancellor of the Eastern ... him to Sun Ce, a military general and warlord. Hua Tuo healed general ...

Uesugi Kenshin (上杉 謙信) (February 18, 1530 — April 19, 1578), a warlord who ruled Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese ...

to communism inspired him to abandon his warlord lifestyle; he recovered ... regiment sought refuge with a local warlord, Fan Shisheng, in Hunan ...

Zedong rallied opposition against Hunan's warlord Chang Ching-yao.The May Fourth Movement covered more than 20 provinces and over 100 cities of ...

According to legend, the military warlord Liu Bei, came three times ... was the sister of Lady Cai, wife of the warlord Liu Biao, and Cai Mao, one ...

Takeda Shingen was born the son of the warlord Takeda Nobutora (1493 ... Shinano lands that same year. The young warlord made considerable advances ...

orthodoxy, but Muhammad al-Kanem, a warlord of Kanem, contested the ... Muhammad al-Kanem was a Muslim scholar and non-Sayfawa warlord who ...

Yuan Shikai died and China fell into the Warlord Period (1916 – 1928), ... parliament there. However, the warlord of Guangzhou drove him out ...

in Japan where he was in exile because the Chinese warlord, Yuan Shikai, had usurped his position as president of China. He had previously been married ...

Finally, following a rapid campaign, the Druze warlord Fahkr-al-Din II conquered and ruled Greater Lebanon from 1585 to 1635 and implemented a more or ...

harassed by the Kuomintang and their local warlord allies, but also by tribes ... * Warlord era ==Notes== ==References and Further reading== ...

In 1917, the warlord general Zhang Xun (張勛) restored Puyi to his ... Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1924 by warlord ...

In 621 C.E., at the beginning of the Tang dynasty, a warlord and general ... In 1928, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to the monastery and burned ...

by some to have been introduced by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. His ... #039;s behalf in peace negotiations with the same warlord. ...

province of the Republic of China. During the warlord period of the early ROC when control had not been established over all areas of China, the region ...

the Han Dynasty, Shouchun became the base for the warlord Yuan Shu, who declared himself emperor at one point, but soon succumbed to illness, allowing ...

of his domain. He was the first Japanese warlord to incorporate firearms ... the son of Oda Nobuhide, an insignificant warlord and a daimyo, with some ...

third century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional warlord Liu Biao. After his death, Liu Biao's realm was surrendered by his successors to Cao Cao ...

*Khun Lo, warlord who founded the city *Fa Ngum, prince of Luang Prabang who founded Lan Xang *Oun Kham, king who ruled under the French ...

Shadow, Prometheus, 2000 C.E., Gargoyles #6, and Warlord. ==Notes== ==References== * Allen, Charles. 1999. The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey ...

Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Traditional Chinese: 孫中山 or 孫逸仙; Pinyin: Sūn Zhōngshān; or "Sun Yixian") (November 12, 1866 – March ...

leader of the Nationalist government. The warlord capital of Beijing was taken ... communists. Chiang fought with most of his warlord allies. One of these northern ...

China (1912-1949), Shanxi was held by the warlord Yen Hsi-shan, even with ... Chinese Civil War. Yen Hsi-shan, the warlord who had ruled the area since ...

Guangdong (formerly spelled "Kwangtung") is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic of China. It is bordered ...

had been captured by the Mongols warlord, Genghis Khan. [[Image:Qutab.jpg|thumb|250px|The Qutab Minar, now a World Heritage Site in India, was ...

cults of worship. As people called upon the dead warlord as they went into battle or faced hardship, they began to venerate the figure as more than ...

center of a kingdom carved out by the Canaanite warlord Labaya, at the expense of neighboring cities. To accomplish this, King Labaya allegedly recruited ...

Yuan Shikai (Courtesy Weiting 慰亭; Pseudonym: Rong'an 容庵　 t=袁世凱|s=袁世凯|p=Yuán Shìkǎi|w=Yüan Shih-k'ai ...

and Li Zongren, whose armies defeated warlord Sun Chuanfang, moved eastward ... of blockhouses (manned by the troops of a warlord ally of Chiang Kai-shek ...

drama about the conquests of a famous Chinese warlord, and the romantic tragedy Shinju Ten no Amizima (The Love Suicides at Amizima). ...

“Time may be running out for Uganda’s LRA warlord,”] Sudan Tribune (September 26, 2005). Retrieved September 8, 2007. Bride kidnapping, ...

Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco ...

The power of the Hashshashin was destroyed by the Mongol warlord Hulagu Khan. During the Mongol assault of Alamut on December 15, 1256, the library ...

to wipe each other out. For example, warlord Zhang Zuolin of Manchuria ... it was checked in Shandong, where Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang, backed ...

Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. ...

During the late-fourteenth century, Islamic warlord of Turco-Mongol ... Second Invasion (1596-1598), the Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with ...

*"Achilles' Revenge" is a song by Warlord. *Achilles Heel is an album by the indie rock band Pedro the Lion. *Achilles and his ...

English king Alfred the Great and the Norwegian warlord Guthrum the Old, written down following Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington, in 878 ...

the eunuchs, and the intervention of the warlord Dong Zhuo. The shanyu named ... In 216, the warlord-statesman Cao Cao detained Hucuquan in the city ...

based in a part of Somalia controlled by Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Ethiopia retaliated by supporting groups in southern Somalia who were ...

an urged Fu Chien to invite him to Ch’ang-an. The warlord-emperor sent Lu Kuang (Lü Guang, 呂光) with an army to march on Kucha and seize Kumarajiva ...

several conflicts between the Hongwanji and the warlord Oda Nobunaga, culminating in a 10-year conflict over the location of the Osaka Hongwanji, which ...

Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...

The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began attacking clan-based dissident groups opposed to his rule with his special ...

power to the Liberia Council of State. Prominent warlord Charles Taylor was elected as President in 1997. Taylor's brutal regime targeted several ...

at the time. Later on, China splintered into warlord factions, resulting in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Shandong was part of the ...

largest land battle ever fought. During the Warlord Era in the early twentieth century, Liaoning was under the Fengtian Clique, including Zhang Zuolin ...

Congo respectively. With the death of the Muslim warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, the greatest ruler in the region, and the creation of the Military Territory ...

Aethelfrith's years as a successful warlord came to an abrupt end in 616, when he was slaughtered by Redwald of East Anglia at the River ...

Rimini, into a memorial to the local warlord Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, his wife Isotta, and courtiers. The church is usually known as the ...

*Gung Ye (ruled 901–918), a Korean warlord and king of short-lived state of Taebong during the tenth century, claimed himself to be a living ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag of eighteenth-century pirate ...

Hebei ( c=河北 |p=Hébĕi |w=Ho-pei ; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeast ...

* Ma Bufang ( 馬步芳), was a warlord in China during the Republic of China era, ruling the northwestern province of Qinghai. * Ma Hualong ...

most of the U.S. troops withdrew. Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid saw ... ICU with little resistance. The remaining warlord forces fled to the east ...

In 627, the general Li Yi, Prince of Yan, a late-Sui warlord who later submitted to Tang and had been associated with Li Jiancheng, fearing that ...

Prince were soon discovered by soldiers under the warlord Dong Zhuo from Western Liang, who proceeded to seize control of the capital under the pretext ...

chiefs. Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Bau Island warlord who united the disparate tribes of Fiji and proclaimed himself king in 1871, renounced cannibalism ...

for a son as brave as the deceased Rus' warlord. Christian, 344; Pletneva, 19; Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, 90. Following Sviatoslav's ...

The strategist, poet, and warlord Cao Cao in the early third century C.E. authored the earliest known commentary to the Art of War. Cao's ...

of a tournament organized by the then-principal warlord in Japan, Oda Nobunaga. At this point wrestlers wore loose loincloths, rather than the much ...

this issue. Snorri introduces Odin as a mortal warlord in Asia who acquires magical powers, settles in Sweden, and becomes a demi-god following his ...

state simply replaced peasants' existing warlord or landlord. The first attempt, the so-called Great Leap Forward (GLF), saw a remarkable large ...

Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea with his daimyō and their troops in 1592 and 1597. Factional division in the Joseon court ...

in 376, under the leadership of their infamous warlord Attila the Hun. After the disintegration of Attila's empire, the Huns were succeeded by ...

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It has been in continual use in ...

Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China's largest city. The city's development in the past few decades ...

Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb was occupied by warlord and Kuomintang general Sun Dianying and his army, who methodically stripped the complex of its ...

of the central government and the rise of feudal warlord states created an environment of anxiety and discord, within which these early thinkers had ...

pacified," to emphasize that the warlord government in Beijing was not legitimate. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Beiping fell to Japan ...

almost completely destroyed. Wrad, a Pictish warlord, eventually became King of the Picts at the same time as Kenneth became King of Dal Riata. ...

* Palmer, Alan. 1978. The Kaiser: Warlord of the Second Reich. London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 9780684156378. * Petropoulos, Jonathan ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China {{infobox country ...

overseen by a comes or dux as appointed by the warlord. The title was eventually regularized to margravei (German: markgraf). (i.e. "count of the ...

, younger brother, executed by a warlord * Mao Zetan (毛泽覃, 1905–1935), younger brother, executed by the KMT * Mao Zejian (毛泽建, 1905–1929 ...

(1443-1490), the son of the feudal landlord and warlord John Hunyadi. Building on his fathers' vision, the aim of taking on the Ottoman Empire ...