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Recognized both before and after the advent of Christianity, the site was converted into a secular estate after the 4th-century introduction of Christianity in the Rhodope Mountains. By the 11th - 12th centuries, it came under the control of the Byzantine Palaiologos family.
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Estates (Russian: усадьба) [1] in Russian architecture are typically a settlement complex of residential, household, parks and other buildings, as well as a manicured garden. Estates first appear in the 15th century in the Principality of Moscow and are associated with the estate system .
The outer town housed estates, churches, monasteries, workshops and dwellings. [300] Adjoined to the outer side of southern gates of the inner town there was a large trading edifice with 18 rooms for commerce on the first floor and accommodation rooms on the second. [ 235 ]
Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. [3] [4]
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No longer desiring to live in the out-of-date forts built on top of hills, they chose the flat lands for their estates as locales for their splendid palaces. The nobility loved arts and sciences and lived within fine social norms; this had significant influence on the building of the palaces.