as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village in 1833.

This became a village of three or four log cabins, and a store was added in 1821.

He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.

Once Christianity was established, the Catholic Church became the focal point for village activities and Guam became a regular port-of-call for the Spanish galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Philippines.

* 1380: The owner of the village which became Gdynia, Peter from Rusocin, gave the village to the Cistercian Order.

It officially became a village in 1712 and is first referred to as Grin ' wich in 1713 Common Council records.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

In 1701, the settlement of Shcheglovo was founded on the left bank of the Tom ; soon it became a village.

The Tonga people were forced to leave their homes and fertile lands that had been under cultivation for hundreds of years, although their farming was of the " slash-and-burn " method whereby the villages were abandoned after a few years when the soil became less fertile, the villagers moving to a new patch of bush and building a new village, see " The Shadow of The Dam " mentioned below.

Able to absorb knowledge quickly, he became, in 1916, in the midst of World War I, a village schoolteacher at the age of 17.

From approximately the 8th century A. D., adjacent village compounds called ile coalesced into numerous territorial city-states in which clan loyalties became subordinate to dynastic chieftains.

They became so commonplace that in 965 King Edgar decreed that there should be no more than one alehouse per village.

The mine was once a bone of contention between Germany on the one side and the village that became the neutral territory of Moresnet.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny became the leader of the village in 1939.

This village centered around a small ( probably wooden ) castle or ' Motteburcht ' on an equally small hill, which became derelict and was torn down after a few centuries at most.

In the unrest of the Sengoku period ( 15th – 17th centuries ), mercenaries and spies for hire became active in the Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kōga, and it is from their ninja clans that much of our knowledge of the ninja is drawn.

Some sixty years later the town ( at that time a tiny village ) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth ended up in the county of Kulmbach.

From 1780, development of the Georgian terraces had started and the fishing village became the fashionable resort of Brighton.

It was once a fishing village, and then became the home of many of the officers of the French fleet.

In November 1864, a small village of Cheyenne and Arapaho became victims of the Sand Creek massacre, an attack by the Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington.

The village became the county seat in 1859, replacing the Village of Angelica.

Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

* In the town: Abensberg ( main settlement ), Aunkofen ( civil parish ), Badhaus ( village )

There was on the promontory a small town, or rather village, also called Actium.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

To the west of Alcobaça is the well-known former fishing village of Nazaré, now a town.

Today, the village is now a small town and a popular holiday resort with most of its past and traditions having rapidly evaporated in the course of time.

In the following centuries the monastery and the adjoining village ( Onoldsbach ) grew to become the town of Ansbach ( called a town in 1221 for the first time ).

In Palestinian folk tradition, Ayyub's place of trial is Al-Joura, a village outside the town of Al Majdal ( Ashkelon ).

Aboukir Bay is a coastal indentation across, stretching from the village of Abu Qir in the west to the town of Rosetta to the east, where one of the mouths of the River Nile empties into the Mediterranean.

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

# Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole.

* A municipality is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a town or village.

At the age of nine, Brâncuși left the village to work in the nearest large town.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

In the 19th century Mzizima ( Swahili for " healthy town ") was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian Ocean trade routes.

The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingør date back to the 13th century and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingør was then, was a town of a certain importance.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, a small seaside village between Bundoran, County Donegal, and Sligo town on the northwest coast of Ireland.

There is an extensive bus network, with red Bussleiðin town buses serving Tórshavn and blue Bygdaleiðir, which means " village route ", buses connecting the rest of the islands.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.