Sentence examples for receiving lands from inspiring English sources
The eldest son of Clovis I by Clotilda, Chlodomer shared in the fourfold partition of his father's kingdom in 511, receiving lands in western and central France; his was the only one of the four kingdoms to form a single geographical unit on both sides of the Loire River.
The parliament made some progress in agrarian reform, with peasants receiving land expropriated from large estates.
After receiving land from his father, emperor Louis I, Charles became embroiled in a series of civil wars among his half-brothers over the maintenance of land for succession status.
In the 1940s, they formed a strong alliance with Yigal Allon, then a young commander of the Palmach, the elite Zionist fighting force, receiving land in return for their loyalty and support.
He began to accumulate his family's fortune by manufacturing weapons and, after receiving land grants from Peter I the Great (reigned 1682 1725), by building and operating an iron foundry at Tula.
This was because land was distributed for household heads, not to each member of the household; as a result, those married women were totally excluded from receiving land independently, since the land was registered in husband's name.
The 1824 Constitution of Mexico banned religions other than Roman Catholicism and gave preference to Mexican citizens in receiving land.
The deal also included a land swap, with the city giving OTA land from Hunter Park and receiving land along the right-of-way to construct recreational trails.
Veterans received lands, mostly in Syria and Africa.
Most of the knights received lands from the barons they served.
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.
