Kossuth was the son of a landless, lesser nobleman of Protestant background.

In the War in Defense of the Constitution, the Commonwealth's ally Prussia, under Frederick William II, broke its alliance with the Commonwealth, which was effectively defeated by Catherine the Great's Imperial Russia in alliance with the Targowica Confederation, a coalition of Polish magnates and landless nobility who opposed reforms that might weaken their influence.

But when agrarian reform ended in 1990, about 150, 000 landless families still had not benefited from the reform actions.

In addition, they had a category of batraks, landless seasonal agriculture workers for hire.

In 1961, the dispossession of farmland had produced 40, 000 landless families and by 1969 their numbers amounted to 400, 000 throughout Colombia.

A few tribes had become nearly landless and others feared losing their lands.

Serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861, and while many peasants would remain in areas where their family had farmed for generations, the changes did allow for the buying and selling of lands traditionally held by peasants, and for landless ex-peasants to move to the cities.

In this regard he would have had before him the example of his kinsman James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, who fled to England the previous century, living out his life as a landless mercenary.

A fian was made up of landless young men and women, often young aristocrats who had not yet come into their inheritance of land.

In this case, General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, facing a shortage of firearms and bayonets to arm landless serf partisans recruited straight from the wheat fields, had their sickles and scythes heated and straightened out into something resembling crude " war scythes ".

The Contras became " a campesino movement with its own leadership " ( Luis Carrion ); they had " a large social base in the countryside " ( Orlando Nunez ); " the integration of thousands of peasants into the counterrevolutionary army " was provoked by " the policies, limitations and errors of Sandinismo " ( Alejandro Bendana ); " many landless peasants went to war " to avoid the state collectives, and Contra commanders " were small farmers, many of them without any ties to Somocismo, who had supplanted the former National Guard officers " ( Sergio Ramirez ).

He felt that the policy of reservations for the backward sections in education and the public sector had remained unfulfilled due to administrative distortions and narrow interpretations, and needed to be implemented with renewed vigour and sincerity ; apprehensive of what he described as a counter-revolution among some privileged sections seeking to reverse progressive policies, he reminded the nation that these benefits were not charity, but had been provided by way of human rights and social justice to sections constituting a large portion of the population and contributing to the economy as landless agricultural labourers and industrial workers.

However, Albania had no working class on which the communists could rely for support, and Marxism appealed to only a minute number of quarrelsome, Western-educated, mostly Tosk intellectuals and to landless peasants, miners, and other persons discontented with Albania's obsolete social and economic structures.

The ongoing disruption of agrarian life in Palestine, which had been continuing since Ottoman times, thus created a large population of landless peasant farmers who subsequently became mobile wage workers who were increasingly marginalized and impoverished ; these became willing participants in nationalist rebellion.

From the fifteenth century hence, most condottieri were landless Italian nobles who had chosen the profession of arms as livelihood ; the most famous of such mercenary captains was the son of Caterina Sforza, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, from Forlì, known as The Last Condottiere ; his son was Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ; besides noblemen, princes also fought as condottieri, given the sizable income to their estates, notably Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino ; despite war-time inflation, soldier ’ s pay was high:

The left-wing oriented slogan, " Land to the Landless ", proved irresistible to the peasants and labour-force, as the party promised not only to abolish the fundamental feudalism that had plagued the country, but also to redistribute lands amongst the landless and the peasants.

This dramatic change coincided with the privatization of the commons ; the landless peasants who depended on the commons were left helpless since they had no political representation and no means of achieving it given the changes in the new constitution.

His greatest following came from the landless ex-tenant farmers drifting in to Haifa from the Upper Galilee where purchases of agricultural land by the Jewish National Fund and Hebrew labour policies excluding Arabs had dispossessed many of their traditional livelihoods '.

Many had become landless with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and their numbers were increasing with immigration from Ireland.

Already in 1796, when the Duke of Zweibrücken ( after the French advance towards Zweibrücken ) was a landless prince exiled in Ansbach, Montgelas had developed a masterplan for the future modernisation of Bavaria.

It was those who had not received land from these claims, joined by others, and led by the same leaders from the already existing reginal movement MASTER ( Rio Grande do Sul landless farmers ' movement ), who eventually came to compose the 1980 / 1981 encampment.

Land: Previously no restriction had been imposed on the transfer of land from Arabs to Jews, while now the White Paper stated: " The Reports of several expert Commissions have indicated that, owing to the natural growth of the Arab population and the steady sale in recent years of Arab land to Jews, there is now in certain areas no room for further transfers of Arab land, whilst in some other areas such transfers of land must be restricted if Arab cultivators are to maintain their existing standard of life and a considerable landless Arab population is not soon to be created.

Only seven of the thirteen states had western land claims, and the other, " landless " states were fearful of being overwhelmed by states that controlled vast stretches of the new frontier.

In any case, many tribal members became landless labourers in the 1960s and 1970s, and regions that a few years earlier had been the exclusive domain of tribes had an increasingly mixed population of tribals and non-tribals.

The Templars were joined by 15 families of landless farmers ' sons from the Rhine, who couldn't inherit any estate from their parents ' possessions due to an over-fragmentation of their estate.

Secondly, the term " agrarianism " means political proposals for land redistribution, specifically the distribution of land from the rich to the poor or landless.

Johnson advocated " a free farm for the poor " bill that would give land to landless farmers.

Kalimantan was the focus for an intense transmigration program that financed the relocation of poor landless families from Java, Madura, and Bali.

Typical subjects include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers ' strike, class conflicts between the landless working class and the squatters ( landowners ), and outlaws such as Ned Kelly, as well as love interests and more modern fare such as trucking.

The 1992 peace accords made provisions for land transfers to all qualified ex-combatants of both the FMLN and ESAF, as well as to landless peasants living in former conflict areas.

One million acres ( 4000 km² ) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.

The result was that the large landowners obtained larger estates, and many peasant became landless tenants, or moved to the cities or to America.

There were gunfights over strikes, landless labourers began to seize land, church officials were killed and churches burnt.

More than half of the rural population, moreover, remains landless and heavily dependent on diminishing seasonal labor and low wages.

They were followed by landless Irish indentured labourers, who were recruited to serve a landowner for a specified time before receiving freedom and land.

The Transmigration program ( Transmigrasi ) was a National Government initiative to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia ( such as Java and Bali ) to less populous areas of the country including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

Many remained landless, and plots grew smaller and smaller and thus more and more unproductive as land was subdivided among heirs.

To protect their interests, the settlers banned the growing of coffee, introduced a hut tax, and the landless were granted less and less land in exchange for their labour.

The " land to the tiller " reform of 1946 redistributed the bulk of agricultural land to the poor and landless peasant population, effectively breaking the power of the landed class.

Spanish merchants borrowed from British merchants to finance their purchases ; merchants in Buenos Aires borrowed from Spain ; those in Asunción borrowed from the porteños, or residents of Buenos Aires, and Paraguayan peones ( landless peasants in debt to landlords ) bought goods on credit.

As the Industrial Revolution moved large numbers of workers into the cities, a permanently landless, and therefore voteless, class developed.

After several unsuccessful attempts to address this problem, a new state constitution was passed in 1843 allowing landless white men to vote if they could pay a $ 1 poll tax.

Governor Sir Arthur Grimble instigated some reforms, exempting lower income groups from taxation, He was keen to create model housing and distribute smallholdings for the landless.

The fact that the land is redistributable by the village committee also ensures that no one is left landless ; this creates a form of social welfare.

Initially a landless cadet, Ernest Augustus succeeded in having the House of Hanover raised to electoral dignity in 1692.

The weregild for a Welshman was 110 if he owned at least one hide of land, and 80 if he was landless.