A latifundium (Latin: latus, "spacious", and fundus, "farm", "estate") was originally the term used by ancient Romans for great landed estates specialising...

were engaged in agriculture. From the beginning of small, largely self-sufficient landowners, rural society became dominated by latifundium, large estates...

and are the pars dominica, or master's residence, of a large latifundium or agricultural estate. The nearby settlement of Philosophiana was probably the...

return from the First World War, veterans returned to a promise for Latifundium, ill-cultivated land and uncultivated land to be distributed amongst...

United States History of sugar King Cotton Latifundium Sugar plantations in the Caribbean Tropical agriculture Paige, Jeffery M. (1975). Agrarian Revolution...

With the progressive decline of the latifundium, the ancient Apulian farms, properties of medium agricultural size, also decayed. During fascism, Apulia...

historically a serfdom-based farm and agricultural enterprise (a type of latifundium), often very large. The term has changed its meaning several times throughout...

were at the centre of a large agricultural estate, sometimes called a latifundium. The adjective rustica was used only to distinguish it from a much rarer...

was originally royal property, but successive royal donations led to a Latifundium system in which plots were leased to different families. Normally, the...

verification] See list of transcontinental countries. The latifundia (sing., latifundium), large estates controlled by the aristocracy, were superimposed on the...

[aˈθjenda] or [aˈsjenda]) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, haciendas...

type of villa was a large commercial estate called latifundium which produced and exported agricultural produce; such villas might lack luxuries (e.g. Cato)...

Roman writers refer with satisfaction to the self-sufficiency of their latifundium villas, where they drank their own wine and pressed their own oil. This...

many owners in Italy about their large tracts of land. Agrarian reform Latifundium Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.41 Barthold Georg Niebuhr, History of Rome,...

land ownership was concentrated among a few landowners who held it as a latifundium, or held in mortmain by the Church, while feudal rights to tithe and...

Carandini, Il latifondo in epoca romana, fra Italia e province, in Du Latifundium au latifondo, Un héritage de Rome, une creation médiévale ou modèrne...

concentration of land in a few properties gave land tenure in Magallanes as a latifundium structure. This increased concentration of land ownership faced criticism...

problems of the southern territories. An underlying issue was that of the latifundium, which was in the hands of a few landowners who represented the economic...

the latifundium and the confiscation of ecclesiastical property led to the formation of a land-owning bourgeoisie, promoting specialized agricultural productions...

system in Poland/Lithuania Baltic nobility, system in Estonia/Latvia Latifundium, Ancient Rome Patroon, 17th century New Netherland Property Law in Colonial...

aristocracy class who ruled each local tribe. The latifundia (sing., latifundium), large estates controlled by the aristocracy, were superimposed on the...

Sardinia, on the other hand, the Savoy administration maintained the feudal latifundium for a long time: it was only formally abolished between 1835 and 1839...

herdsmen against deprivation and mistreatment, localized on the "ranch" (latifundium) of Damophilos in Enna, but soon spread to include slaves in the thousands...

conquest of Sicily, the territory began to be managed according to the latifundium scheme; this, combined with the advent of the pax romana, which made...

were leased for agropastoral production transforming them into urban latifundium, which helped supply the population. They were precarious stables located...

servitude that weighed on the indigenous class could not be freed if the latifundium was not finished first. The agrarian problem thus appeared, in all its...

Toronto. Retrieved 2008-06-08. Great estates, the Latifundia (sing., latifundium), controlled by a land owning aristocracy, were superimposed on the existing...

around the 15th century as a rural latifundium between Turin and Moncalieri, taking its name from the agricultural farmhouse that stood along the ancient...

a country, like Brazil, with an "agrarian-exporting society based on latifundium, monoculture and pre-capitalist labor relations in the countryside. His...

least suitable for construction − a latifundium: with all the lower-elevation flat land claimed for agricultural production, it is natural to put the...