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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.
Villa: a large house which one might retreat to in the country. Villa can also refer to a freestanding comfortable-sized house, on a large block, generally found in the suburbs, and in Victorian terraced housing , a house larger than the average byelaw terraced house , often having double street frontage .
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 term is the Anglicized form of the word villa, used in Latin documents to translate the Anglo-Saxon tun. [5] The vill remained the basic rural unit after the Norman conquest—land units in the Domesday Book are frequently referred to as vills [6] —and into the late medieval era.
Italian palazzi, as against villas which were set in the countryside, were part of the architecture of cities, being built as town houses, the ground floor often serving as commercial premises. Early palazzi exist from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, but the definitive style dates from a period beginning in the 15th century, when many noble ...
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?
Villein is derived from Late Latin villanus, meaning a man employed at a Roman villa rustica, or large agricultural estate.The system of tied serfdom originates from a decree issued by the late Roman Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305 CE) in an attempt to prevent the flight of peasants from the land and the consequent decline in food production.