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Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small plots of land. The word ''cotter'' is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout England, being principally in the southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in working on the holdings of the villani. Like the villani, among whom they were frequently classed, their economic condition may be described as free in relation to every one except their lord. A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant renting land from a farmer or landlord. Highland Cotters (including on the islands, such as Mull) were impacted by the Industrial Revolution, as landowners realized they could make more money from sheep than crops. The landowners raised rents to unaffordable prices, or forcibly evicted entire villages, leading to mass exodus and an influx of former cotters into industrial centers, such as a burgeoning Glasgow. ==Germany== The medieval German equivalent of the cotter was the ''Köttner/Kätner'' or ''Kossäte'' (also ''Gärtner'' (gardener)). The term ''Kossäte'' is derived from Low German and translates "who sits in a cottage".〔Werner Buchholz, ''Pommern'', Siedler, 1999, pp.66-70, ISBN 3-88680-272-8〕〔Joachim Herrmann, ''Die Slawen in Deutschland'', Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1985, pp.421ff〕 Cotter houses (''Kate'' or ''Kotten'') were detached houses near German villages, used as homes and workshops. Many of these ''Kotten''/Cotter houses still remain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cotter (farmer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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