Near Kayenta, Arizona, Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago has been studying a group of Ancient Pueblo villages that relocated from the canyons to the high mesa tops during the late 13th century.

The urban areas of Canberra are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs as well as other industrial areas and villages.

The descendants of some of the Bandanese who fled Dutch conquest in the seventeenth century live in the Kai Islands ( Kepulauan Kei ) to the east of the Banda group, where a version of the original Banda language is still spoken in the villages of Banda Eli and Banda Elat on Kai Besar Island.

Such a demographic, alienated from the westernized ways of the urban elite, but uprooted from the comforts and more passive traditions of the villages they came from, is understandably favourably disposed to an Islamic system promising a better world – an ideology providing an " emotionally familiar basis for group identity, solidarity, and exclusion ; an acceptable basis for legitimacy and authority ; an immediately intelligible formulation of principles for both a critique of the present and a program for the future.

Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices ; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show.

* Finland ( since 1804 ): ( mostly Mişärs )-19th-from a group of some 20 villages in the Sergach region on the Volga River.

On the Monday, when the feast was over, a group of people set off to the villages of Morley St. Botolph and Hethersett to tear down hedges and fences.

They set up villages — actually just a scattered group of thatch houses and cultivated gardens — where conditions favored farming.

* villages in which a largely stable group of artists decided to settle permanently ( Egmond, Sint-Martens-Latem, Newlyn and Worpswede )

* Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada, a group of hamlets and villages

One small ethnic group, concentrated in three villages ( Pikhtinsk, Sredne-Pikhtinsk, and Dagnik ) in Zalarinsky District is the so-called " Bug Hollanders ": descendants of Polish-speaking Lutheran farmers who had moved to Siberia from the then Russian Volhynia in 1911-1912 in search of affordable land.

During the medieval period the property, consisting of more than, was part of a group of 32 villages near-by that created the then known as " L ' Anjou ".

On the morning of July 10, 1941, by the order of mayor Marian Karolak and the town's German gendarmerie, a group of Polish men from around Jedwabne and neighboring settlements was assembled, who then rounded up the local Jews as well as those seeking refuge from nearby towns and villages such as Wizna and Kolno.

The second group of Plains Indians ( sometimes referred to as Prairie Indians ) were the semi-sedentary tribes who, in addition to hunting buffalo, lived in villages and raised crops.

El Dorado Hills was envisioned as a large-scale master-planned community that would be completely planned from its inception as a group of residential " villages ".

Later, in September 1864, a group of Confederate guerillas under Jim Jackson attacked the town and made off with supplies and money from the villages businesses and citizens.

Upon the completion of a railroad junction in 1875, the town grew more rapidly, eventually changing from a group of small and loosely connected fishing and agricultural villages into a fast-growing suburb at the turn of the 20th century.

It is well documented that a large group of Hispanic settlers came to the area around 1864 leaving villages along the Rio Grande in the vicinity of present day Socorro, New Mexico after devastating floods had occurred.

The town of Amenia traces its roots to a group of wealthy New England investors from the villages of Amenia, New York and Sharon, Connecticut which formed the Amenia and Sharon Land Company and, in July 1875, under the representation of Eben W. Chaffee, purchased of land from the then bankrupt Northern Pacific Railroad.

This second group of Hispanics came up from Texas, but they had roots in the villages around the city of Monterey, Mexico.

It is one of a group of villages known as The Stours, located in the River Stour Valley, five miles south of Gillingham.

Ripponden is the main settlement in a small group of villages ; Barkisland, Ripponden, Rishworth and Soyland.

During the same period the tribe split into four different competing groups living in different villages, a consequence of rivalry between three groups of conservatives, who favored retaining traditional ways, and one group under White Plume which favored accommodation with the United States.

The word Shqiptár is also used in a few villages of Thrace, where Arvanites migrated from the mountains of Pindus during the 19th century however they also use the name Arvanitis speaking in Greek, while the Euromosaic ( 1996 ) reports notes that the designation Chams is today rejected by the group.

The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.

Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, Edward's uncle, quickly seized complete control, and created himself Duke of Somerset on 15 February 1547.

Somerset was named for a settlement that had been begun in 1848, in what is now Atascosa County, by a group of Baptist families from Somerset, Kentucky.

In April 2010 a large hoard of coins was unearthed near Frome, Somerset, United Kingdom, which includes the largest group of coins issued during Carausius ' reign ever found ; 760 coins from his reign were found in a group of 52, 500 Roman coins that also included 5 rare silver denarii.

As a teenager, Harvey began learning saxophone and joined an eight-piece instrumental group Boulogne, based in Somerset.

It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.

The Clerical Medical pensions and investments group, part of HBOS, had its headquarters in the town on the former site of the Hales Cakes factory, but after its closure, North Somerset Council entered into talks to take over the lease.

Somerset was deposed and sent to the Tower of London in October 1549, with Arundel, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, and John Dudley, Earl of Warwick ( later Duke of Northumberland ) among the leaders of the new governing group.

* Somerset Waste Partnership, the group respnsible for recycling and rubbish collection in the county of Somerset, England

The group consisted of Palmerston, Lewis, Somerset, Russell, Newcastle, Lord Granville ( foreign secretary ) and the Duke of Cambridge ( commander-in-chief of the British Army ), advised by Earl de Grey ( Lewis ’ undersecretary ), Lord Seaton ( a former commander-in-chief in Canada ), General John Fox Burgoyne ( the inspector general of fortifications ) and Colonel P. L. MacDougall ( the former commander of the Royal Canadian Rifles ).

At 11: 00 the position of the attacking force was the Canterbury and Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiments, two squadrons of 1st Light Horse Regiment, one squadron of 2nd light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 10th Light Horse Regiment ( 3rd Light Horse Brigade ), 1st ( Australian ) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Gloucestershire Hussars with the Inverness Battery covering the New Zealanders, the Leicester and Somerset Batteries the Australians, the Hong Kong Battery covering the Battalion of Camel Corps Brigade while the HAC battery shelled " C " group of redoubts from a distance of.

Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in the Somerset House Conference of 1604, are important historical documents in their own right.

The main exceptions to this are The Wurzels ( originally " Adge Cutler and the Wurzels "), a Somerset group who had a number one hit in the UK with " Combine Harvester " in 1976.

It was reported in the Blackmore Vale Magazine that Midwest Radio had been given permission by Ofcom to have a single breakfast show, but John Baker, the station manager, said " the group had no plans to close either of its centres or to stop broadcasting separate breakfast shows for South Somerset and North Dorset.

Both stations and the others in the group were later acquired by One Gold Radio who run the TotalStar group and Quay West became TotalStar Somerset.

After warm-up matches against Somerset, Wales, Glamorgan and various club sides, they played in the same first round group as England, India and New Zealand, losing to all three.

A group called the New Somerset and Dorset Railway, has been set up with the aim of restoring the line between Bournemouth and Bath, along with key branch lines, as a commercially viable railway running freight and commuter services ( with provision for heritage services too ).

Congresbury lies next to the Strawberry Line, an old railway line now converted to a pathway for walkers and cyclists to enjoy the countryside with views over the North Somerset Levels and reserves on the Congresbury Moors, which is maintained by the local conservation group, YACWAG.

" Under the name " Somerset ", the group appeared on GTV-9's talent quest programme New Faces, winning their way to the finals, only to be beaten by John Williamson.

Portishead are a musical group named after the town of Portishead, Somerset.