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What are encomiendas?

What are encomiendas? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of encomienda
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Finally, he ended up convinced of the injustice of the encomiendas.
There are other encomiendas which have one monastery between two of them.
The practice of these islands is that one of the two encomiendas is vacated.
Spanish immigrants settled in sociopolitical units called encomiendas, which were in effect government grants of land and people run by individual powerful Spaniards.
This province and all the said encomiendas are without instruction.
At a certain moment Pedro de RenterĂ­a, socius of Las Casas, became convinced that the system of the encomiendas was unjust, and decided to abandon it, setting the Indians free so that he might become a Carthusian.

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