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covering the security needs in areas out of control of the state in central and western Sicily with his guards. Over the course of the breakup of the feudal economy in the first half of the 19th century he established a power to intimidate society both upwards (the absentee landlords) and downwards
67:. Such alliances would allow them to protect themselves and their assets from bandits and cattle rustlers, as well as cut through much of the messy legalities left over from Sicily's transition from feudalism to capitalism in the early 19th century. 159:[In these contemporary times, the word 'gabillott' refers to the farmer that works fields. In Medieval Malta and Sicily, the 'gabillott' was the person that collected the rent from the farmers in the name of the landowner.] 156:
Fi żminijietna, Il-kelma gabillott, tirriferi għal dak il-bidwi li jaħdem l-għelieqi. F'Malta u fi Sqallija tal-Medjuevu l-gabillott kien dak li jieħu ħsieb jiġbor il-qbiela mingħand il-bdiewa għan-nom tas-sid
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paid the landowner for the use of land, and rented out the use of the land to peasants or through a sub-lease to
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was a person who rented farmland for short-term use. They were rural entrepreneurs who leased the lands from
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eventually would overpower the landowner and by the mid-19th century would be the real power on the
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acted as an overseer and was the real power on the estate. He hired guards (
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for the rent, tax and supplies and seeds for the planting season. The
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Albini, Joseph L.; McIllwain, Jeffrey Scott (2012).
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Index

Gabelloto
Sicily
Malta
Maltese
aristocrats
Mafia
Sicilian
estate
"Gabillott"
pp. 132-33
pp. 31-35
pp. 36-37
Deconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study
ISBN
978-0-7864-9299-2
ISBN
0-340-82435-2
ISBN
0-674-80742-1
History of the Mafia
ISBN
978-0-231-13134-6
Category
Culture of Sicily

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