The clans and tribes united into larger tribal alliances were known as il (country).

Clans and tribes, united into larger tribal alliances known as "il" (the country).

Nigeria is still very much a tribal society..." where local and tribal alliances count more than "national attachment.

Here they lived among various groups under a tribal alliance called onogur, or '10 peoples'.

Maybe because I use my brain and ears to decide about music, rather than my tribal alliances.

His ultimate aim was that through this tribal alliance the Zagros Mountains would become a nearly impenetrable barrier against the forces of the central government.

In the middle of the 2nd century BC, the place turned into the town-like settlement and the centre of tribal alliances.

The peoples there went through the bronze age and iron age, then forming tribal alliances and beginning to battle with China.

Bright, however, believes that like the Decalogue this text has its origins in the time of the tribal alliance.

Supporters of each party are able to distinguish themselves personally by tribal alliance, personal differences, and ideological disagreement.