The term community has two distinct commutive meanings: 1 ) Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values.

Therefore a small village settlement likely constituted a social community, and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities.

The village supports a variety of community groups including religious, sporting and cultural organisations.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

Genealogists sometimes specialize in a particular group, e. g. a Scottish clan ; a particular surname, such as in a one-name study ; a small community, e. g. a single village or parish, such as in a one-place study ; or a particular, often famous, person.

A number of factors, including improved vaccination against common diseases, and nutritional education through village and community health-care systems, contributed to the expanding population.

Mass forces include village self-defense groups and citizen militias organized for community defense and can be useful in providing civic mobilization and local security.

Peasants continued to center their lives in the village, where they were members of a corporate body and help manage the community resources and monitor the community life.

The two Malayan Plans, and the First Malaysian Plan ( 1966 – 70 ), directed resources heavily into developments which would benefit the rural Malay community, such as village schools, rural roads, clinics and irrigation projects.

The Slavophiles were opponents of bureaucracy, preferred the collectivism of the medieval Russian mir, or village community, to the individualism of the West.

All the land turned over to the peasants was owned collectively by the mir, the village community, which divided the land among the peasants and supervised the various holdings.

Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, members of the peasant community in the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague ( Normandy ).

May Day is most associated with towns and villages celebrating springtime fertility and revelry with village fetes and community gatherings.

In a short article, Geoffrey W. Arnott described an Oromo rite of passage in which young men run over the backs of bulls surrounded by the village community.

Towards the latter part of the Middle Ages in Europe, both the State-the State would use the instrument of confiscation for the first time to satisfy a debt-and the Church-the Church succeeded in acquiring immense quantities of land-were allied against the village community to displace the small landlord and they were successful to the extent that today, the village has become the ideal of the individualist, a place in which every man " does what he wills with his own.

However, the distinctive culture surrounding country pubs, that of functioning as a social centre for a village and rural community, has been changing over the last thirty or so years.

Soon after the village was platted in the early 1810s, a Methodist church was founded in the community.

In April 1986, he won election as mayor ( a nonpartisan position ) of his adopted hometown, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California – a small, wealthy village and artists ' community on the Monterey Peninsula.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

For Slayton's contributions to the early planning of Columbia, the community center in the Wilde Lake village, Slayton House, was named for him.

Nine village centers, 15 neighborhood centers, and four senior centers provide space for a large variety of community activities.

It operates on 25 acres " with a vision to create a model demonstration sustainable village community rooted in social, ecological, and economic well being ".

“ There is a real need for residential development ,” he said, “ in which there is a strong sense of community ; a need to feed into the city some of the atmosphere and pace of the small town and village ; a need to create a community which can meet as many as possible of the needs of the people who live there ; which can bring these people into natural contact with one another ; which can produce out of these relationships a spirit and feeling of neighborliness and a rich sense of belonging to a community .” In a city that practiced strict racial segregation, Rouse intended Cross Keys to be open to all who could afford to live there.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

Though Anthony himself did not organize or create a monastery, a community grew around him based on his example of living an ascetic and isolated life.

The little community of reformed Benedictines at Cîteaux, which would have so profound an influence on Western monasticism, grew rapidly.

* A planned community is one that was designed from scratch and grew up more or less following the plan.

Eventually, the system grew to include seven senior colleges, four hybrid schools, seven community colleges, as well as graduate schools and professional programs.

Elfman grew up in a racially mixed community in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles.

The community that grew up around the library developed wards and protections against the Horrors, which they traded to other lands and eventually became the powerful Theran Empire, an extremely magically advanced civilization and the main antagonist of the Earthdawn setting.

Jacob, the second bishop of Nisibis, was appointed in 308, and Ephrem grew up under his leadership of the community.

Many Esperantists believe this declaration stabilising the language is a major reason why the Esperanto speaker community grew beyond the levels attained by other constructed languages and has developed a flourishing culture.

Later GP-related work grew out of the learning classifier system community, which developed sets of sparse rules describing optimal policies for Markov decision processes.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

The practice of living communally during the rainy vassa season, prescribed by the Buddha, gradually grew to encompass a settled monastic life centered on life in a community of practitioners.

Van Buren grew up in a Dutch-speaking community.

While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections.

Due to the relative freedoms the Christian community had during Severus ' reign the Church in Rome grew, leading to the belief that Urban was a skilled Converter.

The community that grew around the cathedral eventually became the city of St. Boniface, which merged into the city of Winnipeg in 1971.

When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so-called Scorpioni, who inspired his semi-autobiographical 1999 film Tea With Mussolini.

Pereira intended for the UC Irvine campus to complement the neighboring community, and the two grew in tandem.

The amount of uncompensated care delivered by nonfederal community hospitals grew from $ 6. 1 billion in 1983 to $ 40. 7 billion in 2004, according to a 2004 report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, but it is unclear what percentage of this was emergency care and therefore attributable to EMTALA.

With the addition of this new area, Brooklyn grew from a substantial community of 36, 236 to an influential city of 96, 838.

Thus, it is not surprising that people left Alsace, not only for Paris – where the Alsatian community grew in numbers, with famous members such as Baron Haussmann – but also for more distant places like Russia and the Austrian Empire, to take advantage of the new opportunities offered there: Austria had conquered lands in Eastern Europe from the Ottoman Empire and offered generous terms to colonists as a way of consolidating its hold on the new territories.

Under Napoleon III, Marseille grew to a population of 250, 000, including a very large Italian community.

The chat client grew into an incredibly vibrant community called Baen's Bar.

New settlers moved in, and the community grew into a bustling trading post for furs, hides, and tobacco.