Sentence examples for received lands from inspiring English sources

Veterans received lands, mostly in Syria and Africa.

Most of the knights received lands from the barons they served.

Hugh's attempt to acquire the sole inheritance had been foiled by a division of Clare's estates in 1317; but even so he received lands in Glamorgan and Wales.

The boundaries of the Roman province were slightly enlarged in the area of the upper Majardah valley, where veterans of the army of Gaius Marius received lands.

Theodoric I, Clovis's eldest son by one of the wives he married in Germanic style before Clovis married Clotilda and converted to Christianity, received lands around the Rhine, Moselle, and upper Meuse rivers, as well as the Massif Central.

He received lands in northwestern France, stretching from the Somme down to Brittany, in the partition of his father's kingdom in 511; to these he added part of the kingdom of Orléans in the 520s (by the murder of his brother Chlodomer's young heirs), part of the kingdom of Burgundy in 534 (by conquest, with his brother Chlotar I), and Provence in 536 (by treaty from the Ostrogoths).

Babylonians petitioned him directly and received land grants.

Even individuals who illegally resided in the forest received land and housing in new villages.

The Indians who thus received land became U.S. citizens, subject to federal, state, and local laws.

Contra commanders said about a third of their troops, which numbered more than 22,000, received land.

When the university received land-grant status in 1872, it received federal funding for agricultural and mechanical studies.