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Magpie Lane in Oxford, once known as Gropecunt Lane. Gropecunt Lane (/ ˈ ɡ r oʊ p k ʌ n t /) was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function or the economic activity taking place within it.
This is a category to contain list articles that are listings of streets in a city. Pages in category "Lists of streets by city" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
The Greek rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in the first century AD, was the first to prescribe the form of a eulogy to a city in detail. Features he touches on include the city's location, size and beauty; the qualities of its river; its temples and secular buildings; its origin and founder, and the acts of its citizens. [3]
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. Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.
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Mårten Trotzigs Gränd, less than a metre wide, the narrowest alley in the city. A tour video of Gamla Stan. The town dates back to the 13th century, and consists of medieval alleyways, cobbled streets, and archaic architecture. North German architecture has had a strong influence in the Old Town's construction.
The median value of the more than 17,000 U.S. homes located on a Coolidge street is $176,330, the only presidential street with national median home values higher than the December 2013 national ...