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Example sentences for: communes

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They've been living truly on the fringe, in a succession of communes and finally alone in a tiny cottage in the northern California woods, though Mary has made sure never to drop completely from sight.
While the new Third Republic’s government under Adolphe Thiers negotiated the terms of surrender, the workers’ communes refused to give in.
The communes were strong enough to confine German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa’s Italian ambitions to the south, where he secured Sicily for his Hohenstaufen heirs by marrying his son into the Norman royal family.
Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.
The backbone of the Guelfs was in communes such as Florence and Genoa.