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The article clarifies the sources of the formation of Cossack officer in the second half of the 16th to the middle of the 17th centuries. It is emphasized that this cohort, as a rule, included financially well-off and educated people with the appropriate
Vitalii Shcherbak
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Together with the high late medieval nobility, we find middle and lower nobles without titles who support high noblemen in the defence of their interests and are under their authority.
Santiago González Sánchez
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Notions of Nobility in the 16th Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Lineage and Virtue
The aim of this text is two-fold. Firstly, a general view of terminological difficulties arising when attempting to name nobility as a whole is presented with the main issue to be faced is the fact that terms such as ‘bajorija’ (a Lithuanian term) or ...
Karolis Čižauskas
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Nobility in the Low Countries from Medieval Times to the Modern Era. The Creation of a Dynastic Nobility (from the 15th to the 17th Century) In order to gain the allegiance of the major families during the creation of their new state in the Netherlands,
P. Janssens
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In the hope of solving it, perhaps, this article starts from the observation of the persistence of the following historiographical problem: were nobility and its transmission considered as strictly legal and social facts, or did their representations ...
Camille Pollet
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Identity, enlightenment and political dissent in late colonial Spanish America [PDF]
During the long crisis of the Spanish empire between 1810 and 1825, the Creole leaders of Spanish American independence asserted a new identity for the citizens of the states which they sought to establish, calling them 'Americanos'.
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The Social Structure of the Pskov Province in Archival Materials from the 1760s
The present research featured the social structure of the Pskov Province in the 1760s. The cities of Pskov and Velikiye Luki were the two most densely populated areas in the region, but this study also covered the less populated Gdov urban area.
E. V. Goncharova, M. M. Pavlova
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The present bachelor thesis examines whether the nobility were a homogenous group in terms of privileges granted by the sovereign or not. I argue that the amount and extent of these could vary.
Nikolaus Bliem
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On the nobility of urban notables [PDF]
The claim to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (teseyyüd) was a widespread phenomenon that afflicted the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization [PDF]
This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day.
Oto-Peralias, Daniel +1 more
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