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8 sentences with 'rural'

Example sentences and phrases with the word rural and other words derived from it.


• « The nobility also wielded considerable power over the (mostly rural) common people: peasants in the west and serfs in the east. »
• « There were instances of rural revolts, of peasants hiring lawyers and taking their lords to the royal courts, and other forms of resistance. »
• « Although this meant that 90% of the population was rural or lived in small towns, there was still a much higher concentration of urban dwellers in Italy than anywhere else in Europe. »
• « Machiavelli dedicated the work to the Medici in the hope that he would be allowed to return from exile (he detested the rural peasants among whom he lived in exile and longed to return to cosmopolitan Florence). »
• « Although he was never able to force all his subjects to conform to Christian orthodoxy (especially in rural regions far from the capital), Emperor Justinian launched a series of attacks and persecution campaigns against heretical sects. »
• « The system of land ownership and the traditional rights enjoyed not only by feudal lords, but also by serfs and freemen who lived under the lords, is called "manor", the rural political and economic system of the early Middle Ages as a whole. »
• « While the large British population of landless rural labourers and poor peasants had no choice but to seek work in the factories, most French peasants were independent farmers who had no interest in going to the cities to work in miserable conditions. »
• « At first glance, 19th century Europe seems more like the Europe of previous centuries than the radically new one - most people were still farmers, all countries except Britain were still largely rural, and the Industrial Revolution took decades to spread beyond its British heartland. »

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