Some areas may provide archeological values such as ancient Indian village sites or hunting areas, caves, artifacts, etcetera.

A modest Turkish farming village lies to the southwest of the ancient city.

The present village Amfipoli (), named after the ancient city, occupies the site.

In 1940, Russian construction workers found ancient ruins during the construction of a highway between Abakan and the nearby district center village of Askyz ( Аскыз ).

The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.

In this sense it is synonymous with the concept of an ancient settlement, whether a hamlet, village, town, or city.

Located about southwest of Athens, Corinth is surrounded by the coastal townlets of ( clockwise ) Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site and village of ancient Corinth.

In 1893 archaeologists from the École française d ' Athènes finally located the actual site of ancient Delphi and the village was moved to a new location, west of the site of the temples.

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

In ancient India, around 920 AD, in Tamil Nadu, Palm leaves were used for village assembly elections.

The Roman church of San Gavino is Gavoi's foremost sacred spot, through there are eight other ancient churches in the village.

The current village of Harappa is from the ancient site.

The south coast has two populated areas ; the bay of Komi and the ancient village of " Emporio ", inhabited since 1800 BC, and the site of the black volcanic beach of " Mavra Volia ", believed to have been created by the explosion of Santorini island in 1600 BC.

The village of Kinglassie lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, 3 miles ( 5 km ) southwest of Glenrothes in Fife and 3 miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district. Kinglassie ( Pronounced Kin-glassie ) village has been populated for thousands of years, in 830 AD the village was known as Kinglace, the ancient Picts used to live in this area.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

There are also at least two surviving pyramid-like structures still available to study, one at Hellenikon and the other at Ligourio / Ligurio, a village near the ancient theatre Epidaurus.

It was built in 1988 in the place in where was once the ancient Roman port of Portiolum, and after its immediate success, a huge village was built around it with the same name.

The SS Paranormal Division, under Oberführer Helga von Bulow, has been excavating the catacombs and crypts of an ancient church within the village.

* Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Plans are in progress to enter the castle, the fortified town and the ancient village in the sites of UNESCO.

The Moche people of ancient Peru depicted fishermen in their ceramics.

Brizo ( Greek: Βριζώ ; derived from Ancient Greek word βρίζω meaning " to slumber ") is an ancient Greek goddess who was known as the protector of mariners, sailors, and fishermen.

Since ancient times Hachiman was worshiped by peasants as the god of agriculture and by fishermen who hoped he would fill their nets with much fish.

* Richard LeBaron Bowen, Essay on the tradition of painting eyes, known as oculi, on the bows of boats among mariners and fishermen from ancient times to the present.

The raised ground within Kinneddar Cemetery ( the Aul Cimetry ) where the kirk stood, and where the Stotfield and Covesea fishermen were rebukedThe minutes from the Kinneddar Parish Kirk Session clearly show that the ancient superstitions were at least as important to them as observance of church niceties: " 17 Aprilis 1670 After Sermon the Session Assembling & c. The said day the fishers of Stotefold & Cousea being remitted from ye Presbetry to this Church discipline for satisfaction of yr ( their ) great & gross scandall & Idolatrous custome in burning torches on ye new years even The Presbetry having ordained y ' ( that ) those psons mor in accession in this transgression yn ( than ) oyrs ( others ) satisfy ye discipline in Sacco And oyra ( others ) according to the arbitrement of ye Sessione.

The River Mahakam is an economic resource for fishermen and farmers, and as freshwater source, as a waterway since ancient time until today.

Medieval Haguenau retains three gates from its former fortification, the Tour des Chevaliers ( Tower of the knights ), the Tour des Pêcheurs ( Tower of the fishermen ) and the Porte de Wissembourg ( Wissembourg gate ), two fairly large gothic churches, Saint-Georges and Saint-Nicolas, an ancient water-mill and the old custom-house ( Ancienne Douane ).

The economy of Dojran has always been primarily dependent on fishing and success in the business is attributed to the traditional ancient fishing method used by the fishermen.

The center's collections include Native American song and dance ; ancient English ballads ; the tales of " Bruh Rabbit ," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands ; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in their minds ; an Appalachian fiddle tune heard on concert stages around the world ; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts ; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado ; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War ; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the U. S., first-hand accounts of community events from every state ; and international collections.

The first settlement of ancient people ( hunters and fishermen ) is dated to the 6th – 8th millennia BCE, i. e. in the late Stone Age.

During this event, which is more violent than the others, fishermen usually remain in port because ancient folklore tells them that this wind devours ships.

Around this lake, fishermen and others are still getting an ornaments made of metal and other historical residues belongs to ancient period.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

Every few days, in the early morning, as the work progressed, twenty men would appear to push it ahead and to shift the plank foundation that distributed its weight widely on the Rotunda pavement, supported as it is by ancient brick vaulting.

Kyoto is the ancient capital of Japan and still its cultural center.

The Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech.

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

To its ancient detractors the democracy was reckless and arbitrary.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations.

It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian: ; Aramaic: ; Hebrew: ; Arabic: ).

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.