fiefdom

system of economic and political governance for the land conceded by a lord to a vassal during the Middle Ages in Europe
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fiefdom

Summary

fiefdom is an economic system[1]. fiefdom ranks in the top 9% of economic_system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (781 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • fiefdom's image is recorded as Breviarium Grimani - Juni detail.jpg[3].
  • fiefdom's instance of is recorded as economic system[4].
  • fiefdom's instance of is recorded as administrative type[5].
  • fiefdom's owned by is recorded as feudatory[6].
  • fiefdom's GND ID is recorded as 4167145-4[7].
  • fiefdom's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85048086[8].
  • fiefdom's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 122169525[9].
  • fiefdom's location is recorded as Europe[10].
  • fiefdom's subclass of is recorded as administrative territorial entity[11].
  • fiefdom's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 30254[12].
  • fiefdom's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012kzc[13].
  • fiefdom's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0h6899l[14].
  • fiefdom's HDS ID is recorded as 008972[15].
  • fiefdom's HDS ID is recorded as 009923[16].
  • fiefdom's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fiefdoms[17].
  • fiefdom's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 333.322[18].
  • fiefdom's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 340.55[19].
  • fiefdom's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 321.3[20].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[22].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Lectures and research: Studies on medieval feudal systems[24].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26].
  • fiefdom's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for fiefdom include feudalism[28], a political system[29].

Why It Matters

fiefdom ranks in the top 9% of economic_system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (781 views/month).[2] fiefdom has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] fiefdom is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for fiefdom include feudalism[28], a political system[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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