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Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 entered into full force putting an end to what was left of the Scottish feudal system. The last feudal regime,...

lesser megamurderers (19,178,000), and cases in Mexico, North Korea, and feudal Russia are characterized as suspected megamurderers (4,145,000). Rummel...

L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the...

the bourgeoisie had just as much to gain from the destruction of the feudal regime as the poorer peasantry. Although the main phase of the Great Fear died...

1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic. "Ancien régime" is now a common...

(/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted...

present day Telangana state during the 1940s to overthrow the Nizam's feudal regime. It was a sub movement in the larger independence struggle of India...

Meiji government on June 27, 1869. The battle marked the end of the old feudal regime in Japan, and the end of armed resistance to the Meiji Restoration....

alternative term for the Edo period, 1603 to 1868 Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal regime of Japan during the Edo period Tokugawa clan, a powerful family of Japan...

the new government of Serbian Vojvodina. Instead of the old feudal regime, a new regime was formed based on the national boards with the Head Serbian...

attesting to a high-level order from the military regime to assassinate Haile Selassie for leading a "feudal regime". Documents have been widely circulated online...

whose son took the surname de Berkeley. Under the Ancien Régime until the abolition of the feudal system in 1789, a French baron was any noble in possession...

people's democratic regime in reality was considered the process of wiping out comprehensively fundamental features of colonial-feudal regime. — Lai Quoc Khanh...

In feudal Europe, a corporation (from the Latin corpus, corporis a body) was an aggregation of business interests into a single legal body, entity or compact...

Sweden Land tenure – Legal regime in which area owned by an individual is held by another person Lord paramount – Feudal overlord: a lord with no obligations...

half centuries of the Duchy of the Archipelago, Syros had a singular feudal regime. By the 16th century, the Ottoman fleet became dominant in the Aegean...

"hybrid regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states. The political scientist Juan Linz, in an influential 1964 work, An Authoritarian Regime: Spain...

they were seen by the victorious communist regime and some other Vietnamese as "relics from the feudal regime"; the Communist Party of Vietnam (then Workers'...

retainers (in a patrimonial regime) or of personal loyal allies, such as vassals or tributary lords (in a feudal regime). Their prerogatives are usually...

warmly welcomed by the native population as a respite from an oppressive feudal regime. During the Sino-Indian war of 1962, Tawang was briefly under Chinese...