Between 50, 000 and 100, 000 people were arrested and killed by communist troops in the countryside alone.

As people from the English countryside immigrated to America, they brought elements of English folklore with them, and this particular depiction of elves then evolved in America into the Christmas elves of pop culture.

Gastro-tourism and the Guide Michelin helped to acquaint people with the rich bourgeois and peasant cuisine of the French countryside starting in the 20th century.

For example, it is quite common for works of moral instruction to have an imaginative setting, as a means of getting the audience's attention, but it is difficult to see how Hesiod could have travelled the countryside entertaining people with a narrative about himself if the account was known to be fictitious.

Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 100, 000 people may have been killed in the countryside alone by government troops.

Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

She lived exclusively in the company of her German ladies-in-waiting and had difficulty in adapting herself to the Swedish people, countryside and climate.

It also wanted more people to move away from the countryside of northern Sweden and in to the big cities of southern Sweden, leaving upper Sweden to fend for itself.

Few people in the countryside had access to potable water, electricity, bank credit, or public transportation.

Today the phenomenon of rural flight is also well known in developing countries, where many people in the countryside live below the poverty line.

Like other newly industrializing economies, South Korea experienced rapid growth of urban areas caused by the migration of large numbers of people from the countryside.

In 16th-and 17th-century Wales, an expansion in population as well as taxation policy led to a move of people into the Welsh countryside, where they squatted on common land.

Before the 1970s, most of Iraq's people lived in the countryside and roughly two-thirds were peasants.

Hellequin, a black-faced emissary of the devil, is said to have roamed the countryside with a group of demons chasing the damned souls of evil people to Hell.

For example, conversations of other people may be called noise by people not involved in any of them ; any unwanted sound such as domesticated dogs barking, neighbours playing loud music, portable mechanical saws, road traffic sounds, or a distant aircraft in quiet countryside, is called noise.

He was often seen among the people, in the countryside, at festivals, and, as his reign progressed, meeting with foreign dignitaries in Bhutan and abroad.

In this spirit, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, established People's Communes in the countryside, and began the mass mobilization of the people into collectives.

Young people from the cities were forcibly moved to the countryside, where they were forced to abandon all forms of standard education in place of the propaganda teachings of the Communist Party of China.

The Oscans, a native Italic people, lived in the countryside.

The common free people of the Roman cities, meanwhile, began to move out into the countryside in search of food and better protection.

At that time, economic hardship in the countryside resulted in vast numbers of people moving to cities.

Of this, 5. 7 million people were reported to be living in urban areas and the rest in rural or countryside.

This stagnancy in population despite a high birth surplus in eastern Germany was because many people from the East Prussian countryside moved westward to seek work in the expanding industrial centres of the Ruhr Area and Berlin ( see Ostflucht ).

In the countryside, where guild rules did not operate, there was freedom for the entrepreneur with capital to organize cottage industry, a network of cottagers who spun and wove in their own premises on his account, provided with their raw materials, perhaps even their looms, by the capitalist who took a share of the profits.

Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War ( 66 – 73 CE ), which left the population and countryside in ruins, a series of laws passed by Roman Emperors provided the incentive for the second rebellion.

John provided an erratic education in geography and chemistry, and took William on natural history explorations of the nearby Slough countryside.

The name Zanni ( as well as Zuan ) is a Venetian variant of the name Gianni and is common in the Lombard-Venetian countryside which provided most of the servants to the wealthy nobles and merchants of Venice.

Medicine shows traveled the countryside offering programs of comedy, music, jugglers and other novelties along with displays of tonics, salves, and miracle elixirs, while " Wild West " shows provided romantic vistas of the disappearing frontier, complete with trick riding, music and drama.

Finally, in the towns of the rural countryside, every house was provided with a " guard dog " of sorts, in the form of a porter ( dvornik ), who was charged with the duty of reporting the presence of any suspicious characters or anything of interest to the police.

The commission described the system of administering urban and rural districts separately as outdated, noting that urban areas provided employment and services for rural dwellers, and open countryside was used by town dwellers for recreation.

Numerous manufacturing establishments existed in the community, most of which provided services or products to farmers in the surrounding countryside.

Most businesses provided services or products to farmers in the surrounding countryside.

They were located on hilltops, which allowed tactical control over the surrounding countryside and provided natural defences.

Bates was partial to taking long midnight walks around the Northamptonshire countryside and this often provided the inspiration for his stories.

At the time named Revolution City ( " Al-Thawra "), it provided housing for Baghdad's urban poor, many of whom had come from the countryside and who had until then lived in appalling conditions.

A few of the scientists were gathered up in Operation Overcast, but most were transported to villages in the countryside where there were neither research facilities nor work ; they were provided stipends and forced to report twice weekly to police headquarters to prevent them from leaving.

A water diversion project and pumping station, built in 1972, has provided irrigation for the surrounding countryside.

Strategically, the mountains provided a commanding view of the countryside and highway, giving German artillery on the mountain control of the surrounding area.

Manufacturing is likely to have been stimulated by the existence of the market, which would have provided a source of raw materials such as hides and wool, as well as a demand for goods from prosperous merchants in the town and from visitors from the countryside selling produce.

In doing so he created the Darlehnskassen-Verein, it collected the savings of the countryside dwellers and provided the enterprising but needy farmers with loans.

From its beginnings the city constituted an important market for the surrounding countryside, which provided it with a regular supply of food: from the fertile valleys came the precious saffron ; the surrounding mountain pastures provided summer grazing for numerous transhumant flocks of sheep, which in turn supplied abundant raw materials for export and, to a lesser extent, small local industries, which in time brought craftsmen and merchants from outside the area.

Mostly late 20th century and early 21st century sites, they differ greatly from the majority of the sites for the great parks realized from the 17th to early 20th century that had much more obvious character where glacial terrain with remnant countryside provided what Hargreaves likes to call “ good bones ”.

Stonyhurst has a number of literary associations: its setting has provided inspiration for poets and authors who include former classics teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poems feature details of the local countryside, and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose " Baskerville Hall " was modelled on Stonyhurst Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes ' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil.

River Cottage Forever is the third in the hugely popular " River Cottage " Channel 4 series franchise, following on from Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage in which chef and journalist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall de-camped from the rat-race of city living to move to the rolling hills of the Dorset countryside, which provided the perfect backdrop for his experiment to live off the fat of the land in as self-sufficient a style as possible ; tucked away at the bottom of one of the Dorset valleys is the ideal home: River Cottage.

While the countryside provided land forces, the towns were known for their longships, which were lighter and lower than those used by the Danes and Swedes.

Also the Picardy countryside provided a good surface for tanks, which was not the case in Flanders.