Sentence examples for administrative fief from inspiring English sources

The district is an administrative fief of the (currently Republican) Congress.

Powerful princes control rival administrative fiefs.

… Each fief has an intellectual or administrative territory over which he or she reigns".

Similarly, the officials in the administrative staff of a full marquess's fief were appointed by the central government.

To finance these new military formations and, in particular, to pay the Turkish commanders who headed them, the caliphs began to give them administrative grants (iqṭāʿ in Arabic, usually translated, albeit inaccurately, "fief") consisting of tax revenues from certain territories.

It was that type of mukâṭaʿa that developed into the Ottoman form of fief, the timar, which was the basis of Ottoman military and administrative organization as the European portions of the empire were conquered from the vassals in the 15th century and placed under direct Ottoman administration.

That is now Mr Xi's fief.

He then ran it as his fief.

In the past, Fiat was the Agnelli fief.

The Ampatuans carved their fief into bite-sized pieces.

In his fief, no election observers were allowed.