| The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land. |
| The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers. |
| Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia. |
| In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily. |
| The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia. |
| The latifundia were themselves effects of the policy of conquest and annexation. |
