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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reconquer .
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Mendoza was born in Granada, the last city in Spain to be reconquered from the Moors.
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Mendoza was born in Granada, the last city in Spain to be reconquered from the Moors.
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I accept that Israel "reconquered" this land, including the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan.
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He put down a revolt of satraps in Asia Minor and reconquered Egypt before he was assassinated.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He put down a revolt of satraps in Asia Minor and reconquered Egypt before he was assassinated.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Roman Law is based largely around the law codes put together (in Latin, although by the end of his reign in Greek) by the Emperor Justinian, who also built the Hagia Sophia & briefly reconquered Italy (he was a busy man, or according to Procopius a busy molten-faced demon lord). fostert says:
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He then reconquered the eastern provinces, taking Zenobia prisoner, and made a deal with Tetricus, emperor of Gaul, that resulted in the reunification of the whole empire.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince."
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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By the end of World War II, Estonia had been reconquered by the Red Army, and Stalin annexed it.
Estonian Symbolism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He put down a revolt of satraps in Asia Minor and reconquered Egypt before he was assassinated.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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