Szlachta in a sentence

All other szlachta simply addressed each other by their given name or as "Sir Brother" (Panie bracie) or the feminine equivalent.

Attempts by the szlachta to turn the Zaporozhian Cossacks into peasants eroded the Cossacks' formerly strong loyalty towards the Commonwealth.

Few szlachta were wealthy enough to be known as magnates (karmazyni—the " Crimsons ", from the crimson colour of their boots).

From the view of historical truth Lithuanians also should use this term, šlėkta (szlachta), to name own nobility, but Lithuanian linguists forbade the usage of this Polish loanword.

In doing so, however, these szlachta retained all their constitutional prerogatives, as it was not wealth or lifestyle (obtainable by the gentry), but hereditary juridical status, that determined nobility.

In the mid-17th century, the szlachta (nobility of Poland) were granted a monopoly on producing and selling vodka in their territories.

In the past, a certain misconception sometimes led to the mistranslation of "szlachta" as "gentry" rather than "nobility".

It was at first commonly drunk among peasants who worked on the fields and eventually spread to the szlachta (Polish nobility).

It was deliberately enacted in a way that would ruin the szlachta.

Knowledge of Latin was widespread, and most szlachta freely mixed Polish and Latin vocabulary (the latter, " macaronisms "—from "macaroni") in everyday conversation.

Latin was known to a larger or smaller degree by most of the numerous szlachta in the 16th to 18th centuries (and it continued to be extensively taught at secondary schools until World War II ).

Members of the szlachta had the personal obligation to defend the country ( pospolite ruszenie ), thereby becoming the kingdom's most privileged social class.

Most often the individual being ennobled would join an existing noble szlachta clan and assume the undifferentiated coat of arms of that clan.

Occasionally, 19th-century non-noble landowners were referred to as szlachta by courtesy or error, when they owned manorial estates though they were not noble by birth.

Over the course of time, some nobles were Polonized into the Polish–Lithuanian nobility ( szlachta ) or became part of the Swedish nobility during the period of Swedish Livonia (1629 to 1721) or Russified into the Russian nobility ( dvoryanstvo ).

Sarmatism served to integrate the multi-ethnic nobility as it created an almost nationalistic sense of unity and pride in the szlachta's " Golden Liberty " (złota wolność).

Since the Union of Horodlo of 1413, local nobility was assimilated into the traditional clan system by means of the formal procedure of adoption by the szlachta (Polish gentry ).

The ex serfs could only sell land to other peasants, not szlachta. 90% of the ex serfs in the empire who actually gained land after 1861 were in the 8 western provinces.

The szlachta included those almost rich and powerful enough to be magnates down to rascals with a noble lineage, no land, no castle, no money, no village, and no peasants.

The term szlachta is derived from the Old High German word slahta (modern German Geschlecht), which means "(noble) family", much as many other Polish words pertaining to the nobility derive from German words—e.