internecine war
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Set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, it chronicles the history of her royal family during a tumultuous time, a calamitous internecine war known as “The Dance of the Dragons.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
No reason, that is, except inertia, incompetence and internecine war.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
This series' creator Jesse Armstrong reacquaints the audience with the Roys in the midst of an internecine war.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021
Twenty-eight years after the end of its internecine war that left 100,000 dead, Bosnia-Herzegovina votes on Sunday to elect a bewildering number of national and sub-national presidencies, parliaments, and assemblies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2018
This old style of design in ornament continued in use in Ireland until the twelfth or thirteenth century—in fact, until the inhabitants had destroyed its civilisation by internecine war.
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
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