Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12848

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1884.—“Using the rights of conquest after the fashion of the Normans in England, the Turks had everywhere, except in the Cyclades, . . . seized on the greater part of the most fertile lands. Hence they formed the landlord class of Greece; whilst the *Rayahs*, as the Turks style their non-Mussulman subjects, usually farmed the territories of their masters on the *metayer* system.”—*Murray’s Handbook for Greece* (by A. F. Yule), p. 54.