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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 ...
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 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]
A small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Tympanum (Greek τύμπανον, from τύπτειν, to strike) The triangular space enclosed between the horizontal cornice of the entablature and the sloping cornice of the pediment. Though sometimes left plain, it is often decorated.
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?
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A science project is an educational activity for students involving experiments or construction of models in one of the science disciplines. Students may present their science project at a science fair, so they may also call it a science fair project. Science projects may be classified into four main types.
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