Schleswig became a Danish duchy in the 12th century and remained a fief associated with Denmark until it was forcibly annexed by Prussia and incorporated with Holstein as a single Prussian province in 1866.
Schleswig became a Danish duchy in the 12th century and remained a fief associated with Denmark until it was forcibly annexed by Austria and Prussia after the German-Danish War (1864).
Another bit in the south is a private fief with ties to shady elements in Russia.
The Gambino crime family made Teamsters Local 282 a longtime fief, with three of the union's presidents going to prison in the 1980s and 1990s for their links to organized crime.
Vassal, in feudal society, one invested with a fief in return for services to an overlord.
For years he ran the company like a fief, packing the board with family and friends.
For this success, he was rewarded by Michael VIII with the whole island as a fief, and a noble Greek wife with a rich dowry.
The town revived in Byzantine times but in 1210 ce was captured by the Franks and became, with Árgos, a fief of the duchy of Náxos.
Mr. Quattrone left Morgan Stanley in 1996, having been rebuffed by Mr. Mack in an attempt to build a larger investment banking fief with his own research analysts, based in Silicon Valley in California.
For his exploits, he was rewarded with Euboea as a fief and rose to the rank of megas konostaulos and megas doux, the first foreigner to do so.
