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Synonyms for serf

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

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Serfs' Emancipation Day is celebrated in Tibet on Wednesday.
THE FarmersUnion (Eka) on Thursday urged President Nicos Anastasiades to make May 12 an annual commemoration of the struggles of Cypriot serfs and of their leader Re Alexis against the Frankish rulers of the island in the medieval period.
Among his topics are whether Russia's emancipated serfs really paid too much for too little land; statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions; demographic insights into serfs in imperial Russia; the banking crisis, peasant reform, and economic development in Russia 1857-61; anthropometric measures of well-being in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union 1821-1960; bride-wealth, dowry, and socioeconomic differentiation in rural Russia; and the great reformers and the world they did not know: drafting the emancipation legislation in Russia 1858-61.
An underclass of serfs dependent on the state is growing rapidly, and in the United States currently includes more than half the population.
Readers may question his equation of the "nameless serfs" that built Europe's cathedrals with the "nameless serfs" that built the Franciscan missions, as the latter were not nameless serfs until the Fanciscans arrived.
Landless serfs, let us rid ourselves of the hated Norman yoke.
The first is the medieval baron, who gets his kicks out of riding round the parish on his horse terrifying the serfs and pillaging their food.
On March 28, 1959, the central government carried out the long-delayed emancipation of millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet after the failed rebellion by the Dalai Lama and his followers.
The new Empress also wanted to free Russia's millions of serfs, who were virtual slaves on the estates of Russia's noblemen.
For the part shown in Fig.1, two SERFs ([e.sub.3], [e.sub.4], [e.sub.5]) & ([e.sub.11], [e.sub.12], [e.sub.13]) having identical structure can be recognized on parallel faces f5 and f8 respectively in the XZ plane.
Chekhov's last play chronicles the social fortunes of Russia in the decades between the emancipation of the serfs and the abortive 1905 revolution.
As the great serf emancipation neared, some landowners found still another reason to convert agricultural serfs to household use: the latter were ineligible to receive land.
FORMER Daily Record Champion of Champions, Ian Wilson, of Cupar, Fife, has helped power his St Serfs team into the final of the Scottish Club Championships.
Davies's primary aim is to reconstruct the relations of the state, both central authorities and the local voevoda (military governor), to the population of the town and its district, primarily consisting of odnodvortsy who were expected to perform military service as the town's garrison with the rank of deti boiarskie (the rank of lower- to upper-middle landholders serving in the cavalry, usually owning serfs).