rulers
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More than 1,000 years after his death, the remains of what may be Tsar Samuel, one of the last major rulers of the First Bulgarian Empire, are returning "home" on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“The Battle of Hengyang” recovers a military struggle and a family history—and part of a nation’s past its rulers ordered its people to forget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Their monarchs are recognised as cultural leaders rather than political rulers.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He got up, left the room for a moment, and came back with two wooden rulers.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
