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Example sentences for: clans

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Wellesley then turned on the Marathas, whose clans controlled the puppet Mughal emperor in Delhi and much of central India.
By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
At the same time, marauding Scottish clans began to attack the Lakes.
In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.
The unique piazza’s red-brick herringbone paving/pavement is divided by nine marble strips for the nine patrician clans that ruled the city at the end of the 13th century.