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  2. Community - Wikipedia

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    community-life as interest-based, including sporting, leisure-based and business communities which come together for regular moments of engagement. community-life as proximately-related, where neighbourhood or commonality of association forms a community of convenience, or a community of place (see below). Projected community relations. This is ...

  3. Village - Wikipedia

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    In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [5] In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small proportion of the population living ...

  4. Hamlet (place) - Wikipedia

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    In England, the word hamlet (having the French origin given at the top of this article) means (in current usage) simply a small settlement, maybe of a few houses or farms, smaller than a village. However, traditionally and legally, it means a village or a town without a church, [ 27 ] although hamlets are recognised as part of land use planning ...

  5. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A relatively small unincorporated community, similar to a hamlet in New York state, or even a relatively small community within an incorporated city or town, may be termed a village. This informal usage may be found even in states that have villages as incorporated municipalities and is similar to the usage of the term "unincorporated town" in ...

  6. Best small towns to raise a family - AOL

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    This small, rural community hosts family-friendly events like the Sherborn Library Arts & Crafts Fair and Farm Day, which celebrates Sherborn's farming past and present. Throughout the year, the ...

  7. Shtetl - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, the Orthodox community in Antwerp, Belgium, is widely described as the last shtetl, composed of about 12,000 people. [14] [15] The Gateshead, United Kingdom Orthodox community is also sometimes called a shtetl. [16] [17] Brno, Czech Republic, has a significant Jewish history and Yiddish words are part of the now dying-out Hantec slang.

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  9. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Roadhouse or Bed and breakfast – a roadhouse is a small mixed-use premises typically built on or near a major road in a sparsely populated area or an isolated desert region that services the passing travellers, providing food, drinks, accommodation, fuel, and parking spaces to the guests and their vehicles.