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Ville is a French word meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin villa rustica) and then "village".The derivative suffix-ville is commonly used in names of cities, towns and villages, particularly throughout France, Canada and the United States.
Ville is a Finnish and Swedish male given name. Its name day is celebrated on the 6th of April. In Finland , it reached its peak of popularity in the last two decades of the 20th century.
This is a list of city and town halls in France. The list is sortable by building age and height, and provides a link to the database of monuments historique, which is a listing of buildings and structures important to France's architectural and historical cultural heritage, [1] where relevant.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Map of metropolitan France. As of January 2019, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000. [1]
The path is covered in 2,000 spaced glass inserts, with 1,710 of them commemorating the names of slave ships and their port dates in Nantes. The other 290 inserts name ports in Africa, the Americas, and the area around the Indian Ocean. The path and surrounding 1.73-acre park lead to the under-the-docks part of the memorial which opens with a ...
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The headquarters of Urban Community of Bordeaux Mériadeck is located in the neighbourhood and the city is at the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry that bears his name. The number of inhabitants of Bordeaux is greater than 250,000 and less than 299,999 so the number of municipal councilors is 65. [ 44 ]