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dynasty

A succession of rulers forming a coherent sequence, even if the rulers were not always related. Ancient was traditionally divided into 30 dynasties according to the system of Egyptian historian Manetho (3rd century BC).



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If San Antonio wins, the Spurs go down as serious dynasts, having three titles in seven years - the same number as the Lakers.
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Dynasts are particularly inclined to build impressive civic monuments.
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The poem names also the king's consors Elizabeth of York (1465-1503); the filii born to them as yet, in whom Lancaster and York united to make Tudor; and the powerful matriarch, the king's mother Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), whose role as dynast was much greater than that of Henry's long-deceased father: through her the Lancastrian titulus came to Henry.
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