Hassan in A Sentence

    1

    A second and larger expedition, under Prince Hassan, the son of the khedive, was sent the following year from Massawa.

    2

    A son of Muley Abu'l Hassan, king of Granada, he was proclaimed king in 1482 in place of his father, who was driven from the land.

    3

    All through the preceding year Hassan " Tilli," beylerbey of Bosnia, had raided in Croatia, taking border fortresses and driving off the inhabitants into slavery.

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    An avenging expedition was prepared in the spring of the following year, and, numbering 14,000 men under Ratib Pasha, Loring (American), and Prince Hassan, advanced to Gura and fortified a position in the neighbourhood.

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    At last a conspiracy, into which the principal engineer of Khalid, Hassan the Nabataean, had been drawn, succeeded in inciting Hisham against Khalid.

    6

    Certainly not Hassan Elhassan... The Teutonic Finn Connolly has come up with a rather clever pun.

    7

    Earlier this year, our team visited Hassan 's home in the crowded slums of Kampala.

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    Earlier this year, our team visited Hassan's home in the crowded slums of Kampala.

    9

    From Astara eastwards the boundary is formed by the shore of the Caspian until it touches the Bay of Hassan Kul north of As arabad.

    10

    Hassan Barbarossa, like his father, spent most of his life in the Levant, but was occasionally in Africa when the influence of his family was required to suppress the disorders of the Turkish garrisons.

    11

    Hassan continued to be governor of Kairawan till after the death of Abdalmalik.

    12

    Hassan, full of confidence, eventually won the game by shooting the hoop from the north boundary.

    13

    He defeated the Turks at Salcha, captured the whole camp of the seraskier, Hassan Pasha, shut him up in Izmail, and was preparing to reduce the place when he was forbidden to do so by Potemkin (1789).

    14

    He had eight wives after Fatima's death, and in all, it is said, thirtythree children, one of whom, Hassan, a son of Fatima, succeeded him in the caliphate.

    15

    Here stands the Hassan II Mosque, the world's largest mosque with one of the world's tallest minarets.

    16

    Hussein Kuprili (surnamed Amuja-Zade) was the son of Hassan, a younger brother of Mahommed Kuprili.

    17

    In 1666 the rajah Palakkah, whose father and grandfather had been murdered by the family of Hassan, the tyrant of Sumatra, made common cause with the Dutch against that despot.

    18

    In 1876 Danu Hassan, a descendant of the sultans of Jilolo, raised an insurrection in the island for the purpose of throwing off the authority of the sultans of Tidore and Ternate; and his efforts would probably have been successful but for the intervention of the Dutch.

    19

    In August 1602 Szekesfehervar again fell into the hands of the Turks; in November the siege of Buda by the archduke Matthias, who had taken Pest by storm, was raised by the grand vizier Hassan.

    20

    In June 1593, with an army of 30,000 men, he laid siege to Sissek; the Austrian and Hungarian levies hurried to its relief; and on the 22nd the Turks were routed with immense slaughter on the banks of the Kulpa, Hassan himself, with many other beys and two of the imperial princes, being among the slain.

    21

    In the year 696 Abdalmalik sent Hassan b.

    22

    North-west and south-west the city is commanded by hills, on which are forts, that on Sidi bel Hassan to the south dating from the middle ages.

    23

    Nosair, who succeeded Hassan b.

    24

    On the fall of Algiers the bey (Hassan) placed himself under the protection of the conquerors, and shortly afterwards removed to the Levant.

    25

    Sali Reis, also by birth a Christian of Asia Minor, was likewise successful as a corsair; he distinguished himself especially at the capture of Tunis, and succeeded Hassan Barbarossa as beylerbey of Algiers.

    26

    Strife then arose between the committee and the Liberal Union, a body which mainly represented the Christian electorate, and on the 5th of April Hassan Fehmi Effendi, who edited the Serbesti, the official organ of the union, was assassinated.

    27

    That tract includes almost the whole of Coorg, the districts of Kadur and Hassan in Mysore, the Nilgiri hills, and the Wynaad.

    28

    The Atrek rises a few miles from Kuchan and enters the Caspian at the Bay of Hassan Kuli in 37 21 N., after a course of about 300 m.

    29

    The force was routed by the Abyssinians at Gura, but Prince Hassan and his staff got back to Massawa.

    30

    The Kuren Dagh and Ala Dagh enclose the valley of the Atrek River, which flows west and southwest into the Caspian at Hassan Kuli Bay.

    31

    The mosque of Sidi Ahmed bel Hassan, usually called Abul Hassan, built A.D.

    32

    The Mosul under Hassan IX have just invaded from across the ocean, establishing a colonial beachhead in what would be Virginia.

    33

    The power of the Ottomans at sea was maintained during this period by a series of notable captains, such as Khair-ed-din and his son Hassan, Piale, Torgud, Sali Reis and Pin Reis.

    34

    This extraordinary man, associated by tradition with Omar Khayyam, the well-known mathematician and free-thinking poet, and with Hassan (ibn) Sabbah, afterwards the founder of the sect of the Assassins (q.v.), was a renowned author and statesman of the first rank, and immortalized his name by the foundation of several universities (the Nizamiyah at Bagdad), observatories, mosques, hospitals and other institutions of public utility.

    35

    We had to cross a very steep wadi - Hassan looked nervous but the Land Rover did n't falter.

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    We had to cross a very steep wadi - Hassan looked nervous but the Land Rover didn't falter.

    37

    When he died in his palace at Constantinople he was succeeded as beylerbey of Africa by his son Hassan.