Late in the 13th century the burgher class in Germany began imitating the aristocratic minnesingers. |
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He was also a Captain in the burgher militia, making him the first known Uys to partake in the long military tradition of the family in South Africa. |
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These men became free burghers or citizens who had gained their release from their contracts with the VOC by taking up plots of land and by entering into a burgher militia. |
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A burgher house with a built-in passage, located in the corner of the square and Rhody street is a one-of-a-kind object. |
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Embroidering in Bohemia was known as early as in the 12th century at the court, in cloisters, and in burgher houses. |
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He probably was a wandering minstrel of burgher origin, born perhaps in Swabia. |
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Speaking of Renaissance monuments, there is a row of burgher houses with their characteristic segmented arched gables that stands out of the town's development. |
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And he avoided paying taxes like a good Zurich burgher by moving to nearby Wilen in the next canton, where taxes are lower. Yet even his detractors admit that he shook up corporate Switzerland. |
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On the banks of the Weser River are many ruined castles, old churches, and palaces, and there are also interesting half-timbered buildings, burgher houses, and town halls throughout the state. |
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Although the burgher population became largely German or German-speaking, the extent of settlement by Germans was restricted except in Silesia and Pomerania. |
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The Rolandsfigur on the large market fountain from 1564 symbolises the most important achievement of this medieval burgher settlement, the right to hold markets. |
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In the course of visiting already mentioned unique medieval and Baroque sights the town offers also visit of some burgher houses with restored Renaissance arcade courtyards. |
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In the 14th century new wharves were situated at the gates, while the burgher houses between the gates created a kind of a defensive wall on the bank of the river. |
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On the European continent, there is a clear difference between noble arms and burgher arms. |
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Mercator never accepted the privileges and voting rights of a burgher for they came with military responsibilities which conflicted with his pacifist and neutral stance. |
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From a young age, burgher women were taught various household related duties by their mothers, including reading, so as to prepare them for their lives as housewives. |
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The League's monopolistic control over the economy of Norway put pressure on all classes, especially the peasantry, to the degree that no real burgher class existed in Norway. |
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Another burgher, interrupted in her reading of Goethe, might fling open her second-floor shutter and toss a panful of hot water dogward, cursing in a guttural German. |
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The applicants are Sri Lankan nationals of the Burgher ethnic minority group. |
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I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community. |
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His mother was a Burgher and his father was of Tamil heritage. |
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The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent. |
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An ethnic group named Burgher people emerged in Sri Lankan society as a result of Dutch rule. |
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