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Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
The Roman Villa: A Historical Introduction. du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere (1995). The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity. Rivert, A. L. F. (1969), The Roman villa in Britain, Studies in ancient history and archaeology; Shuter, Jane (2004). Life in a Roman Villa. Picture the Past. Smith, J.T. (1998). Roman Villas.
Uruguay Village or "villa" is one of the three levels at which the government classifies urbanizations or "localidades", a "villa" is highest rank than a "pueblo" which is the lowest unit and lower than a city or "ciudad", which is the highest rank. This organization is more related with notability than size, since there is no official criteria ...
The reasons for making the villa a World Heritage Site are: it is a masterpiece that brings together the material culture of the Mediterranean world, it inspired the Renaissance and baroque period, it inspires the modern world as well, and the villa is an exceptional survival of the early Roman Empire. [26]
Interest in the island's history began to surface again in 2022 when it was announced the Carleton Island Villa, one of the most well-known landmarks on the St. Lawrence River, although in ...
Latifundia included a villa rustica, including an often luxurious owner's residence, and the operation of the farm relied on a large number of Roman slaves, [5] sometimes kept in an ergastulum. They produced agricultural products for sale and profit such as livestock (sheep and cattle) or olive oil, grain, garum and wine. Nevertheless, Rome had ...
The Villa is modeled after a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Contributing: Thao Nguyen This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What is the Getty Villa?
The vill was the smallest territorial and administrative unit—a geographical subdivision of the hundred and county [3] —in Anglo-Saxon England. It served both a policing function through the tithing, and the economic function of organising common projects through the village moot. [4]