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Auyl (Kazakh: Ауыл) is a Kazakh word meaning "village" in Kazakhstan. [16] According to the 2009 census of Kazakhstan, 42.7% of Kazakhstani citizens (7.5 million people) live in 8172 different villages. [17] To refer to this concept along with the word "auyl" often used the Slavic word "selo" in Northern Kazakhstan.
Village or Tribe – a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. The population of a village varies; the average population can range in the hundreds. Anthropologists regard the number of about 150 members for tribes as the maximum for a functioning human group.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word compound in this sense is thought to be etymologically derived ultimately from the Malay-Indonesian word kampung or kampong, meaning 'enclosure' or 'village', probably entering English via Dutch or Portuguese. [1]
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...
Village on the isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom: Welsh "The church of St Mary at the pool of the white hazels near the fierce whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave." Note: The longest official one-word place name in Europe, it is also the longest name for a settlement.
Village, an electoral ward of Merton London Borough Council, England; Village (Southwark ward), a former electoral ward in England; Village (Trafford ward), a former electoral ward in Greater Manchester, England; The Village, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; The Village, an area near Donegall Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The feudal system, in which the land was owned by a monarch, who in exchange for homage and military service granted its use to tenants-in-chief, who in their turn granted its use to sub-tenants in return for further services, gave rise to several terms, particular to Britain, for subdivisions of land which are no longer in wide use.
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.