What is "latifundia"

Usage examples of "latifundia".

Templeton, Trehinga was fairly well populated, but most of that population lived on latifundia placed along the great river systems of the north continent.

Running latifundia was a senatorial occupation rather than an equestrian one.

The cash-crop latifundia of its hinterland brought in money, not food, or at most brought variety to the diet.

Massif, the similarly uniform rectangles of collective latifundia, gridded with irrigation trenches, dotted with villages built on a uniform circular plan.

It had been even more visible late in the afternoon, when it had loomed over the brows of nearby low hills like an early rising Lucifer and confronted and confounded a number of isolated farm laborers and one latifundia chairman.

If you get latifundia, eventually you get feudalism, either implied or in fact.

The latifundia, the great estates of imperial days, had been broken up and parceled out to people whose ancestors had been serfs on those very latifundia.

Bronson family had not been prepared to keep them on the land, this area would be corporate latifundia like the rest of the Midwest.

This was in the style of the latifundia, the large state-owned and slave or peasant-worked farms of Roman times.

He possessed latifundia not only in the area of Grasse, where he planted oranges, oil, wheat and hemp, but also near Vence and over towards Antibes, where he leased out his farms.