the landed nobility

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• Landed nobility — is a category of nobility in various countries over the history, for which landownership was part of their noble privileges. Their character depends on the country.*Landed gentry is the landed nobility in the United Kingdom. *In Russian Empire… …   Wikipedia

• Nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary — The front page of the Tripartitum, the law book summarizing the privileges of the nobility in the kingdom The origin of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary can be traced to the Magyar conquest of Pannonia in the 9th century, and it developed… …   Wikipedia

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• Nobility — Nobles redirects here. For other uses, see Nobles (disambiguation). For other uses, see Noble (disambiguation). Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society,… …   Wikipedia

• Landed gentry — Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748 49) is a painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting members of the landed gentry. National Gallery, London. Landed gentry is a traditional British social class, consisting of land owners who could live… …   Wikipedia

• landed — [[t]læ̱ndɪd[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n Landed means owning or including a large amount of land, especially land that has belonged to the same family for several generations. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry. ...the erosion of the… …   English dictionary

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• Upper nobility (Kingdom of Hungary) — NOTOC The upper nobility ( hu. főnemesség, la. barones) was the highest stratum of the temporal society in the Kingdom of Hungary until the 20th century. In the course of the 11 15th centuries, only people who held specific high offices in the… …   Wikipedia