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Example sentences for: communes

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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.
By the end of the 13th century, with the independent-minded communes growing into full-fledged city-states, Italy was clearly not to be subjugated to the will of one ruler.
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.
The backbone of the Guelfs was in communes such as Florence and Genoa.
While the new Third Republic’s government under Adolphe Thiers negotiated the terms of surrender, the workers’ communes refused to give in.