Editing Examples of feudalism (section)

=== Byzantine Empire ===
{{Main|Pronoia}}
[[Pronoia]], the 11th-century system of land grants in the [[Byzantine Empire]], makes a useful contrast to feudal tenure in the European West. Another distinction between the European West can be made in that paroiki (people who lived and farmed on the land of the Pronoiars) owed no debt or loyalty to the pronoiars (the recipients of the Pronoia).<ref name="Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200">{{cite book |last=Harvey |first=Allen |date=1989 |title=Economic Expansion in the Byzantine Empire, 900–1200 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0521521901 |pages=1–13}}</ref> This system was adopted by [[Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|Serbia]] and then the [[Ottoman Empire]] after the fall of the Byzantine Empire at their hands, which called their land grants ''[[timar]]'' and the recipients of the land grants "[[timariots]]".