fief
suomi-englanti sanakirjafief englannista suomeksi
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fief englanniksi
Land held of a superior, particularly condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially service.
(quote-book) Alſo, a Tenure, or Eſtate fief|in fief, or fee. This word was firſt heard of, after the conqueſt of ''Gallia'' by the ''Francs'' (or ancient French-men) when their Soveraign Princes, reſerving ſome land for their own Domains, diſtributed the reſt (by whole Countreys, or large territories) among their Captains, and principal followers, on condition, that they ſhould hold of them, and aid them in their wars (..)
(quote-book) shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; (..)
(quote-book)'' was to take up residence on his fief and to be prepared at all times to rally, armed for battle, to his banner-holder's flag on the sultan's order. According to the income of his fief, every ''sipahi'' had to raise a fixed number of armed horsemen (''cebeli''), who followed him on campaigns.
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(quote-book): An Analytical Edition. Volume I. Introduction and Commentary|location=University Park, Pa.; London|publisher=State University Press|The Pennsylvania State University Press|year=2010|page=256|isbn=978-0-271-00516-4|passage=Investiture was the conferring of a fief by the lord to the vassal, and the rite consisted in the handing over by the lord of some symbolic object intended to represent the act of concession.
(synonym of): any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
(quote-book) There was something of the ancient matriarch in her, who had given her life to the ground, who felt that on her fief in southern Luxembourg she stood in the right place.
A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.
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stronghold (district where a particular political party is usually assured of victory)
(alternative form of); five (5)