Someone who is part of the aristocracy may be given an important public role like an ambassadorial position.
Western aristocracy is hereditary.
Aristocracy is a type of government.
Two important reforms of the French revolution were, the abolition of the hereditary aristocracy, and the introduction of the metric system.
Planter Aristocracy is a tobacco and slavery powered form of democracy titled the planter aristocracy.
The patricians were the aristocracy and the top layer of society. The equites (equestrians) were the second highest layer and formed a lower tier of the aristocracy. They were bankers, moneylenders, merchants and investors in shipping and mining.
An aristocracy.
Saudi Arabia is an aristocracy.
The aristocracy are the nobles of a country. A country ruled by such people may also be called an aristocracy
The upper class was the landowning patrician aristocracy. The second most important class was the equites (cavalrymen). This was an entrepreneurial class which was given equte status, which was like a lower tier aristocracy. The plebeians were the commoners.
The Greek meaning for aristocracy is αριστοκρατία.
American Aristocracy was created in 1916.