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From this period on, we have enough data to observe a social "law": as the capital was the largest consumer, especially of high-priced products such as vegetables which could not be transported over long distances, the gentry always tried to control the land around the capital.

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  1. noun A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
  2. noun A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry: the financial capital of the world.
  3. noun Wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
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  • Many trains to and from the capital were also running well behind schedules as much of northern India was covered by fog. —  India eNews
  • So handing over the keys to the vault that stores your data capital should be a big deal. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Everybody living in the capital will be a five-minute walk from some form of public transport within 20 years, under a masterplan revealed yesterday by the Department of Transport.
  • One of the best Thai restaurants in the capital is the ten-year-old Bangkok House in Só utca near the Great Market Hall —  Budapest Times
  • By 2012, bus users in the capital will be able to use a €10 million GPS system to check arrival times of the next bus by mobile telephone and internet. —  Politics in Ireland - Irish Politics
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  1. From Middle English, principal, from Old French, from Latin capitālis, from caput, head, money laid out; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English capital, from Old French and F. capital (Anglo-Saxon capitol, in comp. capitol-mæsse, first mass) = Provencal Spanish Portuguese capital = Italian capitale, from Latin capitalis, relating to the head, and hence to life, dangerous, capital, also chief, preëminent, from caput (capit-), head: see caput.
  2. = Dutch kapitaal = G. Danish kapital = Swedish capital. from French capital = Spanish Portuguese capital = Italian capitale, from Middle Latin capitale, wealth, stock (whence also ult. the earlier English forms chattel and cattle, q. v.), properly neuter of Latin capitalis, principal, chief: see capital.
  3. from Middle English capitale, properly *capitel, = Old French chapitel, French chapiteau = Provencal Spanish Portuguese capitel = Italian capitello = German capitäl, kapitäl = Dutch kapiteel = Danish kapitæl = Swedish kapitäl, from Latin capitellum, the head of a column or pillar, also literally a little head (see capitellum and cadet), diminutive of caput (capit-), head: see capital, caput.
  4. from capital, n.
  5. from Middle English capitel, capitle (partly from Anglo-Saxon capitul), also assibilated chapitel, chapitle, chapitre, from Old French capitle, chapitle, chapitre, French chapitre = Spanish capítulo = Portuguese capitulo = Italian capitolo = Dutch kappitel = German capitel = Danish kapitel = Swedish capitel, from Latin capitulum, a chapter, literally a little head, diminutive of caput (capit-), head: see caput, and cf. chapter, chapiter, doublets of capital.
 

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