western ukrainian nobility造句

• The western Ukrainian nobility often used as surnames the names of the villages where they lived.
• Based in the traditional heartland of western Ukrainian nobility, the town of Sambir, its first head was the priest Petro Sas-Pohoretsky.
• Despite nobles'feelings of superiority, during the late nineteenth century the western Ukrainian nobility had a reputation among the peasants of being poorer than peasants because they did not work as hard.
• The western Ukrainian nobility, whose self-image was centered on their function of militarily defending the kingdom, found themselves without a social role within the new political circumstances and from this point defined themselves largely by their differences from and superiority to the peasants.
• In one of the two regions with a large concentration of Ukrainian nobles, western Podilia, the loss of special noble legal privileges and elimination of peasant serfdom led to the assimilation of most of the western Ukrainian nobility into the Ukrainian peasantry and to the disappearance of the nobility as a social group.
• According to mainstream Ukrainian historiography, the western Ukrainian nobility developed out of a mixture of three groups of people : poor Rus boyars ( East Slavic aristocrats from the medieval era ), descendants of princely retainers or druzhina ( free soldiers in the service of the Rus'princes ), and peasants who had been free during the times of the Kingdom of Galicia Volhynia.