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 Translation for 'serfdom' from English to Bulgarian
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NOUN   serfdom | -
SYNO serfdom | serfhood | vassalage
ист.пол.соц.
serfdom {noun}
крепостничество {ср}
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Translation for 'serfdom' from English to Bulgarian

serfdom {noun}
крепостничество {ср}ист.пол.соц.
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Usage Examples English
  • Słomka is perhaps best known for his memoir, "From Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor", with its descriptions of Polish peasant life from the time of Polish serfdom until after World War I.
  • Forms of serfdom varied greatly through time and regions. In some places, serfdom was merged with or exchanged for various forms of taxation.
  • Controversially, Zorkin praised serfdom in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta in 2014. Zorkin claimed that serfdom had united Russia and compared its abolishment to Yeltsin's reforms in the 1990s.
  • After the revolt had been put down, Joseph II responded by enacting a Patent for the Abolition of Serfdom for Transylvania in 1785.
  • The population loss caused a crisis during which the nobility unsuccessfully attempted to introduce serfdom in the 15th century.

  • Fugitive peasants (also runaway peasants, or flight of peasants) are peasants who left their land without permission, violating serfdom laws.
  • Under the Serfdom in the Russian Empire, the village belonged to the Taujėnai Manor, controlled from 1826 by the Radziwiłł family.
  • In 1588 the third Statute of Lithuania was signed, which finally completely abolished slavery, but still promoted serfdom (see Serfdom in Poland#15th to 18th centuries for details).
  • The Domar Serfdom Model is a mid-to-late 20th century model that develops a hypothesis concerning the causes of agricultural slavery or serfdom in historical societies.
  • The peasant uprising and associated Galician slaughter of 1846 was centered at Tarnów and is credited with the demise of serfdom.

  • The question of whether serfdom prevailed in traditional Tibetan society is controversial; [...] argues for a moderate position, recognizing that serfdom existed but was not universal in Tibet; a better description of the traditional Tibetan social class system would be a caste system, rather than a comparison to European feudalism.
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