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The 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, a seventeenth-century English aristocrat and politician. Aristocracy (from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ ( aristokratíā ) 'rule of the best'; from ἄριστος ( áristos ) 'best' and κράτος ( krátos ) 'power, strength') is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small ...
Etymologically, as the word developed, it also produced a more political term: aristoi (ἄριστοι). The term aristocracy is a compound word stemming from the singular of aristoi, aristos (ἄριστος), and the Greek word for power, kratos (κράτος). Hon. Arthur Wellesley later made Duke of Wellington after defeating Napoleon.
The Modern French word bourgeois (/ ˈ b ʊər ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ BOORZH-wah or / b ʊər ˈ ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ boorzh-WAH, French: ⓘ) derived from the Old French borgeis or borjois ('town dweller'), which derived from bourg ('market town'), from the Old Frankish burg ('town'); in other European languages, the etymologic derivations include the Middle English burgeis, the Middle Dutch burgher, the ...
Painting of Emperor Basil II in triumphal garb, exemplifying the imperial crown and royal power handed down by Christ and the angels.. Throughout the fifth century, Hellenistic-Eastern political systems, philosophies, and theocratic Christian concepts had gained power in the Greek-speaking Eastern Mediterranean due to the intervention of important religious figures there such as Eusebius of ...
Aristos may refer to Refers to the Greek terminology for "nobility", and is the root term for aristocrat; This also refers to the Greek term for "superior" "best", see Arete (excellence) Aristos (publication) Aristos (Saga of the Skolian Empire) The Aristos, a 1964 book by John Fowles; Aristos Papandroulakis (born 1965), celebrity chef
In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn or thane [1] (Latin minister [2]) was an aristocrat who ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen. [3] He had to be a substantial landowner. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the rank; an approximately equivalent modern title may be that ...
Just 68 companies comprise the Dividend Aristocrats in 2024, and you may not be familiar with many of them, despite their history of attractive payouts. Here are the top 20 by their dividend yield ...
Aristocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοκράτης) may refer to more than one person from ancient Greek history: Aristocrates of Orchomenus , tyrant of Orchomenus, c. 7th century BCE Aristocrates of Athens , subject of an oration of Demosthenes, c. 4th century BCE