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The borough charter of Flensburg (1284) Medieval square in Spišská Sobota, Slovakia (now in Poprad).The former name of the town literally means "Saturday in Spiš" and it is derived from a day of week in which the town was granted a right to organize a market.
Abahlali baseMjondolo assembly The Poor People's Alliance outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in 2009. Several popular movements, such as the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, [11] the Right to the City Alliance in the United States, [12] Recht auf Stadt, [13] a network of squatters, tenants and artists in Hamburg, and various movements in Asia and ...
Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. [1] Since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times.
After its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania was divided into districts until the year 2000. [1] During the 1920s and 1930s, there were 39 districts.
The term droit is also used in various legal connexions (i.e., French law), such as the droit of angary, the droit d'achat (right of pre-emption) in the case of contraband, the feudal droit de bris (see wreck), the droit de regale or ancient royal privilege of claiming the revenues and patronage of a vacant bishopric, and the feudal droites of ...
The Meaning of the City is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance.. Ellul wrote the book in 1951; it was published in English translation in 1970, and then in French in 1975 as Sans feu ni lieu : Signification biblique de la Grande Ville.
Kukës traces its history back over a thousand years. The region that nowadays corresponds to the city territory was inhabited by several ancient Illyrian tribes (most predominantly Dardani tribe), as most of Albania.
Leskovik and the nearby mountain Melesin was the site of a battle in 1831.. Ottoman Albanian spahis and landowners from 19th century Leskovik owned estate properties in parts of the Balkans and in particular the Thessalian plain, until its loss to Greece in 1881 leading to local economic decline and increasing reliance on agriculture.