Sentence examples for smaller fief from inspiring English sources

The clan's income level was severely reduced, and in 1602, its territories were moved to Kubota, a much smaller fief in northern Japan, where they remained until 1871.

Heirs to smaller fiefs might give a knight's horse and equipment.

Because several provinces in Mindanao constitute a semiautonomous Muslim region, a provincial governor has the authority to carve up a province into smaller fiefs for his sons.

With smaller fiefs to pillage, few can now afford the $100,000 or more that it costs to wage a six-hour battle, so such battles are less common.

From him he received a small fief, symbol of the security he had so long desired.

The head of a small fief, in 1331 Kusunoki joined the emperor Go-Daigo in a revolt to wrest the power of government from the shogunate, the hereditary military dictatorship that had dominated Japan since 1192.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin dynasty the hegemon Xiang Yu appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named after its location on the Han River (in modern southwest Shaanxi).

"They are dreaming of the time they were running small fiefs around the country.

Germany was still a loose grouping of small fiefs, seen as repressive by modernist thinkers like the young Wagner.

Two families, living on top of each other, full of rage and overly proud of their small fiefs.

One of the goals of Mr. Hekmatyar then was to discourage a unified capital and to ensure that the city was divided up into small fiefs.