Where these larger polities resisted the French, they were often broken into small chiefdoms.

He conquered his neighbour Pandulf's principality, and Conrad approved the union of the two domains, which formed the largest polity in southern Italy.

Like several other of the larger polities in Gaul, the Carnutes had once been ruled by kings, but seem to have adopted an oligarchic or proto-republican form of government.

The film depicts the attack on a small village by warriors from a larger polity for the purpose of capturing men to be sacrificed atop a pyramid during a solar eclipse.

At the same time, Piedras Negras was also the largest polity in this region.

Mecca was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, acting either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger polities.

This change has been the result of overflow from Viseu, who see Abraveses as a "bedroom community" of the much larger polity.

This ratio of kivas to rooms may suggest that Cliff Palace might have been the center of a large polity that included surrounding small communities.

The intention was to gradually increase the audience's awareness that there was a large and pervasive polity at work behind apparently innocuous events in the Gamma Quadrant.

Roger is the spoiled younger son of the Empress of the largest polity in the galaxy, the Earth-based "Empire of Man".