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unusual facts about clans



Alasdair Crotach MacLeod

The Bannatyne manuscript states that the opposing clans fought skirmishes throughout the Hebrides.

Alieu

This practice has continued to present day in many Fulani clans, most notably the Barry, Bah and Jallow clans.

Battle of Muye

By the 12th century BC, Shang influence extended west to the Wei River valley, a region that was occupied by clans known as the Zhou.

Battle of Prestonpans

Acting on this advice, Cope marched with his infantry and artillery towards Fort Augustus in the central Highlands to overawe the Highland clans and nip the rebellion "in the bud".

Berseba

The first people to permanently settle at this place, then only known under its Khoikhoi name ǃAutsawises, were a group of Khoi herder clans from the Cape Province, driven across the Orange River by encroaching European settlers and the law enforcement of the Dutch East India Company.

Bunwurrung language

It was spoken by six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory.

Crime in Germany

Especially in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Middle Eastern clans are highly active in the trafficking of heroin as well as being involved in the bouncer-scene.

David Johns

During these years, she taught him how to respect and care for the land, plants and animals who enable the Navajo to live, and told him many of the stories that explain how the Navajo came to be and where his parents clans originated.

Demographics of Zimbabwe

Many, however, can also trace their ancestry to the Dutch/Khoisan mulatto clans of the Cape.

Dhrol

Dhamal Chavda's army was made of different warrior clans such as Chavda, Rathod, Chauhan, Jadav, Jhala, Gohil, Varsur, Makwana, Dabhi, Khimsurya and Solanki.

Duchy of Racha

The rival noble clans, especially Tsulukidze and Tsereteli, attempted to counter the move by invoking a force of Ottoman and Dagestan mercenaries, only to be routed by the royal army in 1786.

Emperor Sanjō

One of these clans, the Minamoto clan (源氏)are also known as Genji, and of these, the Sanjō Genji (三条源氏) are descended from the 67th emperor Sanjō.

Esau de' Buondelmonti

The new ruler pursued a pacifying policy, and sought accommodation with both the Albanian clans and the Byzantine Empire.

Eshrefids

The Eshrefids or Ashrafids (Modern Turkish: Eşrefoğulları or Eşrefoğulları Beyliği ) was one of the Anatolian beyliks with its capital in Beyşehir was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of Sultanate of Rum.

Fláithrí Ó Corcrán

Ó Corcrán bore a surname held by at least two unrelated clans; one was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second was situated in Munster.

Gangte people

Other clans or ethnic people in this group are the Thadou (Kuki), Hmar, Lushai (Mizo), Paite, Simte, Vaiphei, and Zou.

Giuseppe Coluccio

Before he reached his teens, his father was murdered in Siderno during a bloody feud that ravaged competing 'Ndrangheta clans.

Jalaun

In early times Jalaun seems to have been the home of two Rajput clans, the Bhadaurias in the east and the Kachwahas in the west.

Kamilche, Washington

The Squaxin Island Tribe is made up of several Lushootseed clans: the Noo-Seh-Chatl, Steh-Chass, Squi-Aitl, T'Peeksin, Sa-Heh-Wa-Mish, Squawksin, and S'Hotle-Ma-Mish.

Khost Province

Khostwal (clans: Lakkan, Tawizai, Sabari, Shamil, Matun, Mali, Mandozai, Khostwal, Mangal from Musa khil sub branch dominating two district up northwest of khowst and Ismail Khel)

Kiazai

Kiazai clans in Iran include Lar Muhammad Hasni, Sistani Muhammad Hasni, Baloch Muhammad Hasni, Kurd Muhammad Hasni and Brahui Muhammad Hasni.

La Santa

It was precisely on account of these innovations that the new institution was opposed by the more traditionalist bosses, such as Antonio Macrì from the Ionic town of Siderno, the 'Ndrangheta’s charismatic leader of the 1960s, and Domenico Tripodo, who was the dominant figure of the Reggio Calabria clans.

Mahsud

They are divided into three great clans or subtribes, namely Manzai, Bahlolzai, and Shaman Khel.

Maire Lynch

The Martyn Tribe of Galway - An Outline of Our Clans and Septs, Adrian James Martyn, in Journal of the Genealogical Society of Ireland, vol.1, part 6, spring 2005, pp.

Mandore

The Sainik Kshatriyas Rajput Clans of Mandore (the Mandorva Rajputs) Major Mandorva Rajputs surnames are - Kachwaha, Bhati, Parihar (Pratihara), Gehlot, Tak, Deora, Chauhan, Parmar (Panwar), Solanki, Tanwar, Sankhla, Rathore etc.

Manus O'Cahan's Regiment

By the Civil War of the mid-seventeenth century there was already a centuries old blood feud running between the Campbell and Macdonald clans.

Masjed Soleyman

Masjed Soleyman was inhabited by various clans of Bakhtiari tribes but oil exploration in this area attracted other people from other parts of Bakhtiari zones to this city for trade or jobs.

Matteo Messina Denaro

They are involved in cocaine trafficking in agreement with ‘Ndrangheta clans from Platì, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica and Siderno, as well as the Mafia family of Mariano Agate.

Misikhu

Misikhu is populated by the Bukusu tribe although there are a number of other smaller Luhya clans bordering Misikhu.

Muzaffarpur district

As per recorded history the Vajjin Republic was a confederation of eight clans of which the Licchavis were the most powerful and influential.

Ōtomo clan

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Ōtomo fought both the Shimazu and Mōri clans, of whom the latter were expert sailors.

Pachhada

In addition to these four clans, the Mahaar, Johiya, Wattu and Kharal clans lived in close proximity to the Pacchada and there was occasional intermarriage.

Panch pallava

Maratha clans using the panch pallava as their clan devak include: Bhoite, Bhonsale, Bagawe, Dalvi, Dharmaraj, Devkante, Devpunje, Gavhane, Gangaik, Ghatge, Harphale, Kale, Shisode, Surve, Shirsagr, Zaware and their sub clans.

Pilbara

Family clans in the Pilbara who were supported by mining prospector, Don McLeod, developed skills for mining and the concentration of rare metals.

Pipiltin

The new hereditary elite unified the clans that had been the center of Aztec life and paved the way for a conquest empire.

Reževići Monastery

The name of the monastery is derived from the name of the clan Reževići, one of clans of the Paštrovići tribe.

Salvatore Miceli

He was involved in a cocaine trafficking network with Mariano Agate, the Mafia boss of Mazara del Vallo and Calabrian clans of Marando, Trimboli and Barbaro from Platì.

Soane Patita Maituku

King Soane Patita Maituku (1947?-) was the Tu'i Agaifo of the Kingdom of Alo from November 2002 until February 19, 2008, when he was deposed as the result of a unanimous decision taken by the kingdom's four chiefly clans.

Sri Sri Harichand Thakur

He was one of six sons of Namasudra or Namassej (then called Chandala) peasant family that was thought to be belong to the Gautama clan (later, the community members agreed to be identified as belonging to Kasyapa clan; in the different census reports of nineteenth century the Namasudras were found to identifying themselves as belonging to four different clans or gotras).

Stateless society

Nevertheless, there are exceptions: Lawrence Krader for example describes the case of the Tatar state, a political authority arising among confederations of clans of nomadic or semi-nomadic herdsmen.

Thakar Rajputs

Herbols, Thadwal, Indaruias, Nangles, Gumbaris, Ranes, Banials, Ranats, Mailes are some of the sub-clans among the community.

Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond

That same year, he jointly commanded a Norman army along with Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, Justiciar of Ireland against the Irish clans of County Wicklow.

Totemism

Among the Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal people who traditionally lived in New South Wales, Australia, totem clans are divided among two subgroups and corresponding matrilineal moieties.

Tōzen-ji

In the Edo period, Tōzen-ji was considered the family temple of various clans, including the Date clan of Sendai, the Ikeda clan of Omi province, the Inaba clan of Usuki Domain in Bungo province, the Suwo of Shinshu, the Tamura of Ichinoseki, and the Mori clan of Saeki in Bungo.

Uokil

The other dynastic clans of the Bulgarians were the Dulo clan of Attila, and Ermi clan of Kubrat (Kurbat) maternal uncle Organa, the Gostun (custodian) of the Nominalia.

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans is a novel by Star Trek novelist Christie Golden based in Blizzard Entertainments Warcraft Universe.

Wathawurrung language

It was spoken by 15 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham.


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