a/the gathering of the clans

clan | American Dictionary

clan
noun[ C ]
 infmlus/klæn/
a family, esp. a large group of people who are related:
Is the whole clan gathering at your house for Thanksgiving?

Examples of clan

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The term hyopho is often mentioned in connection with the b problems of regional clans that falsified registers and hid households and inhabitants.
Increased commercial opportunity led to increased competition and conflict among the different clans maneuvering to profit from the river trade.
The head of a sub-clan's interest in land was expressed by granting permission to the members to cultivate the plots.
Moreover, clans and lineages have in some cases been shown to be trans-ethnic entities that in terms of stability even surpass ethnic identities.
Instead, there were rival clans, sinister characters of all descriptions and, last but not least, witch trials.
Various pacts, covenants, and treaties among nations, tribes, clans, and individuals are captured through language.
The chiefs of the current administrative villages were elected from within their neighbourhood clans, where the defeated candidates were automatically appointed as capitas.
He knew that apprenticeships were generally reserved for the sons of papermaking clans.
Indeed, our managers (be they of purchasing or of providing clans) now question whether they are still relevant, affordable, and important?
However, some territorial control existed, and was ritually organized within and between clans.
He was brought to the clan's compound, taken care of, and later married a woman from his hosts' family, thus founding his own lineage.
Such groups included clans, local villages and guilds.
At any rate, it is not easy to determine how much control clans had over civil disputes that involved their members.
They are well-known for their totemic system of social classification: animals are signs or labels for social groups such as clans and moieties.
However, their own policies of nation-building and promoting local cadres ensured clans' survival.
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