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A boyar could have a state function and/or a court function. These functions were called dregătorie or boierie. Only the prince had the power to assign a boierie. Landowners with serfs but no function were categorized as mazil but were still considered to be of noble origin (din os boieresc, literally "of boyar bone").
Boyar Iordache Filipescu, dressed in the Phanariote boyar fashion, sitting on a divan After the Phanariote regime was instated in Moldavia (1711) and Wallachia (1716), many of the boyar class was made out of Constantinople Greeks who belonged to the Phanariote clients , who became officials and were assimilated to the boyar class or locals who ...
In 1372 Vladislav I of Wallachia gave to the magistrate Ladislau de Dopca, his relative, five estates in the district of Fogaras. Mircea I of Wallachia gives the village of Szkore to Stanciul the hegumen and his brother Călin, and in 1400 he strengthens to his boyars Micul and Stoia the dominion over half of the village of Mondra. [7]
The term boyar duma is used to refer to advisory councils in Russia from the 10th to 17th centuries. Starting in the 18th century, city dumas were formed across Russia. The first formally constituted state duma was the Imperial State Duma introduced to the Russian Empire by Emperor Nicholas II in 1905.
They were defeated by Galician boyars, and the boyar Volodyslav Kormylchych assumed the throne of Galicia in 1213 [20] or 1214, [22] the only non-Rurikid ever to rule any of the Rus' principalities. [22] After he was removed, a compromise agreement was concluded in 1214 between Hungary and Poland, who partitioned the Galician lands. [20]
boyar in charge of the watch of the military camp during war. [33] Sfetnic: Slavic suvetnik: voivode/domnitor's adviser. [34] Spătar: Greek spatharios: In Wallachia, holder of the royal sword and bludgeon and second in rank in the army after the voivode. [35] Staroste: Slavic Starosta: guildmaster, the leader of a guild (breaslă in Moldavia ...
They emerged as frontier settlers recruited from the class of boyar scions. The status of the odnodvortsy changed gradually from singleholding farmers to taxed state peasants. [24] The nobility was too weak to oppose the Emancipation reform of 1861. In 1858, three million serfs were held by 1,400 landlords (1.4%) while 2 million by 79,000 (78% ...
The ratio of the gentry and peasants in the south of Muscovy was unstable up until the late 1600s. For instance, the Yelets desyatnya (a list of boyar scions) of 1622 stated 1256 peasants for 820 boyar scions. [2] By 1678 the number of peasants in the area increased to 3500 as opposed to 1850 boyar scions. [3]