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Articles about cities of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). ... Pages in category "Medieval cities" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 ...
By the start of the 14th century the structure of most English towns had changed considerably since the Domesday survey. A number of towns were granted market status and had grown around local trades. [11] Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex.
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .
The name "the Somme towns" is applied in the historiography of 15th century France [note 1] to a series of specific fortified towns in Picardy which formed a defensive line protecting Paris from invasion from the Low Countries. [4] It constituted a contiguous domain or territory [5] comprising nine towns and castellanies along or near the river ...
A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle. Castle towns were common in Medieval Europe. Some examples include small towns like Alnwick and Arundel , which are still dominated by their castles.
In medieval Spain, urban communities were self-governing through their concejo abierto or open council of property-owners. The larger towns delegated authority to regidores (town councillors) and alcaldes (law officers), who managed the town and the surrounding lands as one communidad. After the Middle Ages, selection of officials was changed ...
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 ...
Other Latin elements in British place-names were adopted in the medieval period as affectations. ... The Names of Towns and Cities in Britain (1986).