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Quincy Market is a historic building near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.It was constructed between 1824 and 1826 and named in honor of mayor Josiah Quincy, who organized its construction without any tax or debt.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The market square of Shrewsbury, an English market town The market square (Marktplatz) of Wittenberg, a market town in Germany. A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.
These structures range from carved stone spires, obelisks or crosses, common to small market towns such as that in Stalbridge, Dorset, [3] to large, ornate covered structures, such as the Chichester Cross, [4] or Malmesbury Market Cross. [5]
The old Municipal Market of Baucau (Portuguese: Mercado Municipal de Baucau) is an historic Portuguese colonial-style former public market in Baucau, East Timor. Since the completion of a renovation in 2014, it has been a cultural centre .
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Early in Greek history (10th–4th centuries BC), free-born citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later, the agora also served as a marketplace, where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid arcades. This attracted artisans who built workshops nearby.
The Central Market was the most important marketplace in Casablanca's European ville nouvelle. The Moroccan nationalist resistance fighter Muhammad Zarqtuni bombed the Central Market on December 24, 1953, after French forces forced Sultan Muhammad V into exile on August 20, 1953—which was Eid al-Adha .