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These early attempts to promote the town as a health resort meant that by the time Tregonwell died in 1832, Bournemouth had grown into a small community with a scattering of houses, villas and cottages. [24] [26] The town would ultimately grow up around the scattered pines and tree-lined walk to the beach, later to become known as the Invalids ...
From the word قند, kand or qand in the local languages (Persian and Pashto), meaning "sweet" and هر, har may be short for شهر, shahar (city or town). The ancient word Gandh, derived from Gandhar also means a sweet, nice smell. The city is a source of fine grapes, pomegranates, apricots, melons and other sweet fruits.
Typical working definitions for small-city populations start at around 100,000 people. [19] Common population definitions for an urban area (city or town) range between 1,500 and 50,000 people, with most U.S. states using a minimum between 1,500 and 5,000 inhabitants. [20] [21] Some jurisdictions set no such minima. [22]
Another typical boom town is Trieste in Italy. In the 19th century the free port and the opening of the Suez Canal began an extremely strong economic development. At the beginning of the First World War, the former fishing village with a deep-water port, which used to be small but geographically centrally located, was the third largest city of ...
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978-mile (22,495-km) trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988. It was Bryson's first travel book.
Stickin' Around: YTV: The main setting of the show. Lazy Town Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat: Universal Pictures: Lazy Town is a southern town in the cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat the population of the town is 1,231. LazyTown: Nick Jr. The name of the city is the same as of the show. Lawndale, Texas: Daria: MTV
In the German language, Burg means 'castle' or 'fortress', though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean city, and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasburg. The word has cognates in other Germanic languages. For example, burg in German, and borg in both Danish and Swedish.
There are numerous instances where the Census Bureau recognizes the built-up area around a town center as a CDP, resulting in a CDP that bears the same name as the town. In these cases, data for the CDP is, in general, meaningless to local residents, who seldom draw any particular distinction between the built-up area around the town center and ...