Drvengrad, meaning Wooden Town in Serbian, is a traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica had built for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Drvengrad ( meaning Wooden Town ) is a traditional village that Kusturica built for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a town that was built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia.

Kamengrad is located only several kilometers from Kusturica's first town Drvengrad, in Serbia.

He is currently living in Drvengrad, Serbia, the village which he had built for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Its first installment was held at Drvengrad, a village built for his film Life Is a Miracle, from 14 to 21 January 2008.

* Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award for his ethnic village project Küstendorf ( also called Drvengrad – “ wooden town ”) on Mt.

He was banned by the apartheid regime in February 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time nor to speak in public, was restricted to the King William's Town magisterial district, and could not write publicly or speak with the media.

The most widely accepted explanation of the name of Kentish Town is that it derived from ' Ken-ditch ' meaning the ' bed of a waterway '.

Another source opines that: " There are two possible derivations: from ' Sace-nong ' or ' Sak-e-nong ' ( Sauk Town ) because the Sauk ( Sac ) once lived there, or from Chippewa words meaning ' place of the outlet ' from ' sag ' ( an opening ) and ' ong ' ( place of ).

The source of this name is Creek " tålwa ," meaning " town ," and " åtigi ," " border " -- " Border Town " -- a town indicating its location on the boundary between the lands of the Creek tribe and those of the Natchez people.

* Montgomery, Powys, named in Welsh " Trefaldwyn ", meaning " The Town of Baldwin "

Timnath is a Home Rule Town, governed by a Town Council, which consists of five elected officials-one Mayor and four Council Members, all positions are elected " at large ," meaning that candidates come from all areas of the town.

Contrary to popular legend, the city is not named after a mythological Chief Munsee, rather it was named after Munsee Town, the white settlers ' name for the Indian village on the site, " munsee " meaning a member of the Delaware tribe.

The town was incorporated as Newtown ( or New Town ) in 1865, but was reincorporated in 1878 as Pocomoke City, after the American Indian name of the river, meaning “ black water .”

Town founder Edward C. Lasater claimed that it was a Lipan word meaning " the land of heart's delight.

Benbecula's main settlement is Balivanich ( Scottish Gaelic: Baile a ' Mhanaich, meaning " Town of the Monk ") in the northwest.

His paternal grandfather, Isidor Shokhet ( from shochet, meaning " kosher butcher " in Hebrew ), lived in Kretinga, a city in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire ( now in Lithuania ), and changed his surname to the Germanised Suchedowitz after escaping to Memel, Prussia, and then to Suchet after moving to Cape Town, South Africa.

The Greek name of the ancient town is from its Phoenician name, meaning " New Town ", as is the name of Carthage.

Apart from the general use of the term, Village Green has a specific legal meaning in England and Wales, and also includes the less common term Town Greens.

The Town of Arlington was originally settled by European colonists in 1635 as a village within the boundaries of Cambridge, Massachusetts under the name Menotomy, an Algonquian word meaning " swift running water ".

In 1792, during the French Revolution, Bourg-la-Reine ( meaning " Town of the Queen ") was renamed Bourg-l ' Égalité ( meaning " Equality borough ").

Kington may have derived from King's-ton, being Anglo-Saxon for " King's Town ", similar to other nearby towns such as Presteigne meaning " Priest's Town " and Knighton being " Knight's Town ".

‘ Chingtune ' was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high on the hill above the town where St. Mary's Church now stands.

It was listed in Domesday Book as Bernulfsuuic, meaning Bernulf's Town ( uuic being an archaic spelling of wick, meaning settlement, in particular, a dairy farm ).

This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.

In Serbian, there are two similar words: magacin, representing the former, and magazin representing the latter meaning.

According to the first dictionary of modern Serbian language ( published by Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić in 1818 ) vukodlak / вукодлак ( werewolf ) and vampir / вампир ( vampire ) are synonyms, meaning a man who returns from his grave for purposes of fornicating with his widow.

In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word въторъ meaning " the second " ( Serbian: уторак ( utorak )).

" Dobro " is both a contraction of " Dopyera brothers " and a word meaning " goodness " in their native Slovak ( and also in Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian ).

In medieval Serbia, the rank of the Boyars ( Serbian: Боjари, Bojari ) was equivalent to the rank of the Baron ; meaning " free warrior " ( or " free man " in general ), it was the first rank after the non-free peasants or serfs.

* Baba ( nickname ), meaning father in Farsi ( Persian ), Pakistan ( Urdu language ), Indian ( Marathi / Maharastra ), Middle Eastern, Greek, and African cultures & grandmother in Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian and other Slavic languages

Novi Beograd, meaning New Belgrade in Serbian, is a municipality of the city of Belgrade, built on a previously undeveloped area on the left bank of the Sava river.

The name Pest comes from a Slavic word meaning " furnace ", " oven " ( Bulgarian пещ ; Serbian " пећ / peć "), probably with reference to a local cave where fire burned.

Believed to be derived from the word zemlja, meaning earth, it was a basis for all other future names of the city: modern Serbian Земун ( Cyrillic ) or Zemun ( Latin ), Hungarian Zimony and German Semlin.

This word was also adopted by Serbs and it is used in Serbian language with same meaning.

The origin of the word truffle appears to be the Latin term, meaning " swelling " or " lump ", which became tufer-and gave rise to the various European terms: French, Spanish, Danish trøffel, German, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Serbian тартуф / tartuf and Croatian.

In some South Slavic languages especially in Serbian, the word krajina refers primarily to border or borderland of a country, with established military defense, and secondarily to a region, area, or landscape ; but in medieval Croatian of Glagolitic texts the last is its primary earlier meaning and military role appeared since Turks.

The word is derived from the Serbian word " četa " ( чета ) which means " band or troop ", itself derived from the Turkish word " çete " of the same meaning.

His nickname Zmaj ( Змај, meaning " dragon ") derives from May Assembly date, 3 May 1848, in Serbian Cyrillic: 3. мај / Змај.

Of particular interest is the Serbian Dabog or Dajbog ( most modern mythographers take for granted this is the same character as East Slavic Dažbog / Dažboh ), also known as Hromi Daba ( meaning " Daba the Lame "), described in folklore as a lame " shepherd of wolves ", an ugly demon-lord who rules the underworld and travels through the world of men.

An example is vatră, which is found in Slovak, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, and other neighboring languages, though with modified meaning.

There are records of an instrument named gusle ( гоусли ) being played at the court of the 13th-century Serbian King Stefan Nemanjić, but it is not certain whether the term was used in its present-day meaning or it denoted some other kind of string instrument.

* Vuk ( name ), Serbian name meaning " wolf "

Its name in other languages includes Arabic and, Albanian, Serbian and,, Bulgarian and, Cypriot Greek: pantopoula, (),, ( Persian influence around the 7th-8th century, meaning regular market, but also special occasion markets, such as Karácsonyi Vásár (" Christmas Market ") and bazár ( Turkish influence around the 16th-17th century, meaning Oriental-style market or shop ), Indonesian and,, and.