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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 villa urbana (e.g. Pliny's villa at Laurentum), [10] or villa suburbana (according to Columella [11]), an estate with little or no agriculture situated in the country, in the suburbs of a town or within close vicinity to a city; and
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.
In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to any single-family unit, as opposed to an apartment building, which is the norm for Indian middle-class city living. The normal custom for an Indian bungalow is one storey, [ 11 ] but as time progressed many families built larger two-storey houses to accommodate humans and pets.
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 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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Along with a domus in the city, many of the richest families of ancient Rome also owned a separate country house known as a villa. Many chose to live primarily, or even exclusively, in their villas; these homes were generally much grander in scale and on larger acres of land due to more space outside the walled and fortified city.