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commandery

NOUN
  1. the position or office of commander

How To Use commandery In A Sentence

  • This is the so-called frontier commandery system (bianjun zhidu) of the Han Dynasty. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • The idea of "rule based on native customs" was applied to create distinctive offices and infrastructure in frontier areas, for example, the frontier commandery system in the Han times, and the jimi system in the Tang period. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • Each commandery had its vineyard or vineyards: hence the name of the modern dessert wine from Cyprus.
  • In 618, the frontier commandery of Nanning was established. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • His territory was placed under the new commandery of Yizhou. 23 By the end of the second century BCE, Han China had reached central Yunnan and part of west Yunnan, thus dividing the Southwestern Barbarian area into the four commanderies of Jianwei, Zangke, Yuexi, and Yizhou. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • [Commandery], Sun Ch'ung, were all enfeoffed as full marquises because they had informed on the The History of the Former Han Dynasty
  • And the medals included a homemade iron cross with the head of Woodrow Wilson in the middle, pounded out by a blacksmith in Mobile, Alabama; a Knights Templar Ascalon commandery badge, which was a green Maltese cross edged in gold given to members of this Christian group whose ancestors had fought in the Crusades; and an iron shamrock against a backdrop of four pennies mounted on red, white, and blue ribbons. Savage Peace
  • His commandery is a pleasant one, and well situated on the slopes of the hills; and the fresh air will, doubtless, speedily set you up. A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes
  • In 112 BCE, when the Han conscripted the Yelang to join the campaign against the Southern Yue Kingdom, the king of Qielan killed the Han envoys and the governor of Jianwei commandery. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • First of all, although central officials were assigned to these posts, they sometimes did not enter the designated commandery or county. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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