In 1716 Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chianti as well as the village of Greve and a 2 mile ( 3 km ) hillside north of Greve near Spedaluzza as the only officially recognized producers of Chianti.

In 1716 Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chianti ( Castellina in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, and Radda in Chianti ) as well as the village of Greve and a 2-mile ( 3-km ) stretch of hillside north of Greve near Spedaluzzo as the only officially recognized producers of Chianti.

The permanent cadre was to circulate among the villages, spending three months in each one, to train the local militia.

* 1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.

Further to the north, are three villages where cherries are grown — Amades, Viki and Kambia.

* " Lower Village / Town ", where present-day Old Town stands, was the oldest of the three villages.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

To create a navigable channel through the Long Sault rapids and to allow hydroelectric stations to be established immediately upriver from Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, Lake St. Lawrence was created through the flooding on 1 July 1958 of six villages and three hamlets in Ontario, now collectively known as " The Lost Villages.

*: The war was a small conflict over the territories surrounding three villages between the Sainyabuli Province in Laos and Phitsanulok Province in Thailand.

** Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill sixty Chinese Christians.

The three main villages around the Côte grow Chardonnay that emphasizes certain characteristics that the Champagne producers seek depending on their house style.

The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is then said to have been granted to the Levites of the clan of Kohath, while the fields of the city, as well as its surrounding villages were assigned to Caleb, who expels the three giants, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, who ruled the city.

During Aurangzeb's reign, the local Nawab sold three villages, including one then known as Calcutta, to the British.

Its three peaks, the minor hills ( Cermalus or Germalus, Palatium, and Velia ), were united with the three peaks of the Esquiline ( Cispius, Fagutal, and Oppius ), and then villages on the Caelian Hill and Suburra.

The population was divided into three equally large groups made up of farmers, their families and servants, trade and government officials and people who owned no land and therefore not much else ; this included the landless proletariat from the villages that during this period came to Tórshavn in search of work.

The name " Leeuwarden " ( or old spelling variants ) first came into use for Nijehove, the most important one of the three villages that later merged into one, in the early 9th century ( Villa Lintarwrde ' c. 825 ).

Two cities, three towns, 64 incorporated villages, and numerous unincorporated hamlets are located within the county.

Until the riots 1969, co-existence between the three ethnicities ( and other minor groups ) was largely peaceful, although the three main racial groups for the most part lived in separate communities-the Malays in the villages, the Chinese in the urban areas, and the Indians in the towns and plantation.

On March 18, 2010, three other villages ( East Randolph, Randolph and Perrysburg ) followed suit and approved dissolution into their surrounding towns ( Town of Randolph for the first two, and Town of Perrysburg for the third ); these three villages dissolved at the beginning of 2012.

Some villages have disappeared ( for example, deserted medieval villages ), sometimes leaving behind a church or manor house and sometimes nothing but bumps in the fields. Some show archaeological evidence of settlement at three or four different layers, each distinct from the previous one.

This explained that the judge of probate of Essex County, 1785 or 1786, appointed three free-holders of Gloucester to divide and establish the Norberg estate.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

Cahir Castle in Ireland was besieged and captured three times: in 1599 by the Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Earl of Essex, in 1647 by Lord Inchiquin, and in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell.

The seax has a lasting symbolic impact in the English counties of Essex and Middlesex, both of which featuring three seaxes in their ceremonial emblem.

* November 20, 1820 After the sinking of the Essex ( whaleship ) of Nantucket by a whale the survivors were left floating in three small whaleboats.

* November 20 – After the sinking of the whaleship Essex of Nantucket by a whale the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats.

There are two sizes of Essex grands and three to four sizes of Essex uprights available in a wide variety of finishes and furniture designs.

At county level, the least deprived areas in the region, in descending order, are Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, with all three having a similar level of deprivation, then Essex.

Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old ( they had moved there originally to avoid the Blitz ) and settled in Chingford, Essex, England.

She appeared in three other box office hits in 1939, The Old Maid with Miriam Hopkins, Juarez with Paul Muni and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Errol Flynn.

Stratford was one of three ancient wards in the large parish of West Ham, in the Becontree hundred of Essex.

When Damon was 9, he moved to Turkey for three months before settling in Oldham, Essex, outside Colchester, in an area described by Albarn as " one of those burdgoening Thatcher experiments where they were building loads of small estates ".

The council is divided into three districts: Three Rivers ( eastern Bergen County and Hudson County areas ), Ramapo Valley ( western Bergen and Passaic County areas ), and Lenape Trail ( Essex County towns ).

It is made up of three villages: Essex Village, Centerbrook, and Ivoryton.

The town is made up of three villages: Essex ( ZIP code 06426 ), Centerbrook ( 06409 ) and Ivoryton ( 06442 ).

Beverly and Salem are separated by the Danvers River and Beverly Harbor, with three bridges, the Veterans Memorial Bridge ( former location of the historic Essex Bridge ), the MBTA railroad bridge, and the Kernwood Bridge, connecting the two cities.

These three towns share Masconomet Regional High School ( named after Chief Masconomet, sagamore of the Agawam tribe, which lived in Essex County at the time of English colonization ) which serves grades 9-12, while its Middle School serves grades 7 and 8.

Caldwell is part of " The Caldwells ", the group of three Essex County municipalities which all have the word Caldwell in their name.

While each community has its own independent government, and the three municipalities have no shared governance ( other than Essex County ), the term is often used to refer to the area, including on highway exit signs.

) In 1949, AC Cars also produced four trains, each consisting three power cars and four coaches, for the Southend Pier Railway in Essex.

The Village of Saranac Lake covers parts of three towns ( Harrietstown, St. Armand, and North Elba ) and two counties, Franklin and Essex.