After that, he moved to a tomb, where he resided and closed the door on himself, depending on some local villagers who brought him food.

When discipline was restored, in spite of assurances that Spaniards who wished to remain would enjoy freedom of religion and full civil rights, almost all villagers decided not to run the risk of staying and left in exile.

The Kosiński family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers who offered assistance to Jewish Poles, often at great personal risk ( the penalty in Nazi-occupied Poland being death ).

Change was facilitated by the physical movement of growing numbers of peasant villagers who migrated to and from industrial and urban environments, but also by the introduction of city culture into the village through material goods, the press, and word of mouth.

Throughout the century that followed, it was the villagers and other peasants who were to prove the greatest opponents of Christianisation, while missionaries often received the support of the edhilingui and other noblemen.

Ra states that he will kill Jackson and everyone who has seen him unless Jackson kills the rest of the team to show the villagers that Ra is their one true god.

Kikuchiyo, who raised the false alarm, rebukes the villagers for their poor behavior.

* Kokuten Kodo as Gisaku ( 儀作 ), the miller and village patriarch, referred to as " Grandad ," who tells the villagers to hire samurai to protect themselves.

The village elder bids them farewell and comments that it is only the villagers who have really won: " You're like the wind, blowing over the land and ... passing on ;... ¡ Vaya con Dios!

** In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.

For easy identification, Altena's followers are mostly people who dress up as nuns and common villagers who are skilled at fighting while her opposers are mainly men in black suits.

In addition in 2006 there were more than 2, 000 Fijian soldiers in the British Army, and in 2004 the British defence ministry even sent recruiting teams to Fiji to do initial fitness and aptitude tests, cutting the costs of selection for poor Fijian villagers who could not afford to fly to London to sign up.

Charles Warren, who was thwarted in his efforts to carry out a full survey of the tombs, in some of which villagers were living, attributed this to " the hostile nature of the villagers " whom he described as " a lawless set.

These population transfers were effective in denying the use of remote villages to FLN guerrillas, who had used them as a source of rations and manpower, but also caused significant resentment on the part of the displaced villagers.

Upon seeing the response by villagers, Madero offered formal justice in courts to individuals who had been wronged by others with regard to agrarian politics.

Missionaries and colonial authorities who had been present before World War II were evacuated from combat areas, which deprived the villagers of people who could explain what was going on.

He released some of his fellow villagers who were being held hostage by the Forestière.

In Indian villages a single field ( normally of three to five acres ) may be farmed collectively by the villagers, who each offer devotional labour, possibly for one or two days per cropping season.

Chief Mattocks arrives with the rest of the armed villagers who threaten action against the sub's crew on deck with rifles and pistols.

Sometime after he entered a village which the road went through, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was black or red.

Most of the 60, 000 villagers are native Egyptians although there is a large population of Nubians who were displaced from their land upon the creation of Lake Nasser.

The priory was dissolved in 1536, and four of the monks were hanged, along with ten villagers who had supported them.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

According to his account, some three thousand villagers had traveled to Manzanillo to greet the Spanish with loaves, fishes and other foodstuffs and were " without provocation, butchered ".

The practice of first aid fell largely in to disuse during the High Middle Ages, and organized societies were not seen again until in 1859 Jean-Henri Dunant organized local villagers to help victims of the Battle of Solferino, including the provision of first aid.

Starting in 1984, the government launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive a wedge between the villagers and the guerrillas in the remote areas of two provinces of Kurdistan in which Kurdish guerrillas were active.

Benjamin Z. Kedar estimates that there were between three hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty thousand non-Franks in the Kingdom, two hundred and fifty thousand of whom were villagers in the countryside, and " one may assume that Muslims were in the majority in some, possibly most parts of the kingdom of Jerusalem …" As Ronnie Ellenblum points out, there simply is not enough existing evidence to accurately count the population and any estimate is inherently unreliable.

The Tonga people were forced to leave their homes and fertile lands that had been under cultivation for hundreds of years, although their farming was of the " slash-and-burn " method whereby the villages were abandoned after a few years when the soil became less fertile, the villagers moving to a new patch of bush and building a new village, see " The Shadow of The Dam " mentioned below.

In Southern Rhodesia, the villagers were told when lorries would be coming to fetch them.

" To some extent this may be because the villagers were re-settled into permanent villages, where slash-and-burn agriculture was no longer appropriate, but they had no concept or tradition of fertilising the ground.

With the escalation of the Sri Lankan Civil War, local villagers under threat of attack were formed into localized militia to protect their families and homes.

16, 000 Colombian troops, backed by the U. S., attacked the 1, 000 villagers, only 48 of whom were armed.

Around 695, two early English missionaries, Hewald the White and Hewald the Black, were martyred by the vicani, that is, villagers.

In 2003, 13 Christian villagers were killed in the Poso District by unknown masked gunmen.

In some cases, when suspected graves were opened, villagers even described the corpse as having fresh blood from a victim all over its face.

After 1990 there were signs of revival in historiography, with a strong new emphasis on 20th-century topics, as well as the application of social history and computerized statistical techniques to the demographic history of ordinary villagers before 1900.

However up to the late 15th century most villagers in the Obotritic area were still speaking Slavic dialects ( Polabian language ), although subsequently their language changed to German.

It was evident that large scale killings were happening nearby, which caused concern among the villagers.

Where allegedly the victims were executed with cold steel weapons. A patrol of 16 special operatives were coming back from a raid in a nearby village which they had raided a few hours earlier they looted and beat the villagers is what they said, this was done several times a week through 5 villages the patrol rout was always the same which the investigation after the massacre claimed that Albanian guerrillas had been monitoring the patrol for some weeks after they got complains by the ethnic Albanian villagers and had realised that the patrol was always the same rout and approximate times.

Mainstream Arab society can be conceived of as divided into three classes, Bedouin ( nomads ), farmers fellahin ( villagers ) and hadar ( townspeople ), though these are often little more than descriptive.

This produced adequate power for the miller to meet the needs of the local farmers and villagers.

As much as 90 % of the villagers own a parcel of sugar cane and are very active cane farmers.

One of them, the BBC's reporter Jacky Rowland, reported that the dead " were all ordinary men ; farmers, labourers, villagers.

Shortly earlier, in about 1956, René Nebesky-Wojokowitz wrote a report after he was told by villagers of Kusundas conducting silent trade with Nepali farmers.

The family is lightly but effectively characterized, and on the outskirts of the story are the villagers, the small businessmen, and the surrounding farmers – the nucleus of Mayhem Parva.

The Lantau villagers instigated an all-out uprising of salt farmers, leading finally to a major civil riot.

In 1982, an Amnesty International report estimated that over 10, 000 indigenous Guatemalans and peasant farmers were killed from March to July of that year, and that 100, 000 rural villagers were forced to flee their homes.

Until the middle of the 20th century, an agricultural system operated by downland farmers known as ' sheep-and-corn farming ' underpinned this: the sheep ( most famously the Southdown breed ) of villagers would be systematically confined to certain corn fields to improve their fertility with their droppings and then they would be let out onto the downland to graze.

Townspeople, villagers and farmers formed a lower class called the rayah.

The villagers are mostly farmers, merchants or fishermen.

Wall construction has also been improved: when assigning two or more villagers, they evenly spread out instead of working on the same patch, and when multiple farmers are sent on one farm, the surplus will start cultivating adjacent farms instead of idling.

PLBLS, a voluntary organization functioning over a decade to protect the bird sanctuaries, educating the students, villagers and farmers to protect the rare birds.

The Millstone had a long tradition as a public house in the centre of the village, used by generations of farmers and villagers.

In the only village actually named Chota, Spanish-speaking black Creole villagers live here but there are eleven other Afro-Ecuadorean villages with more than 100 inhabitants in the upper Chota ; the Quechua-speaking farmers live higher up in the Andes mountains.

The farmers fields that encircle the village and give its rural feel, are now mostly owned by the Proby family in nearby Elton village-who are based at Elton Hall. As little ago as the 1960s there were as many as 6 local farmers resident in the village employing villagers including John and David Simpson, Don Cooke, and Messrs. Kirby, Northern and Horsefield.

The first known store was built in 1850 to supply dry goods to the villagers and surrounding farmers.

The villagers of Appenzell town are still known as Hofer, to distinguish them from the surrounding farmers.

Fellahin was the term used throughout the Middle East in the Ottoman period and later to refer to villagers and farmers.

The majority of the villagers are subsistence farmers of maize and rice.

The villagers of Erangal are mostly traditional farmers who cultivate the adjoining farmlands.