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  2. Khasra - Wikipedia

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    It is often used in conjunction with a shajra (or shajra kishtwar), which is a family tree of owner ;used for reference map of the village that administers the land described by the khasra girdawari. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Khasras traditionally detail " all the fields and their areas, measurement, who owns and what cultivators he employs, what crops, what ...

  3. Shajra - Wikipedia

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    A shujra or shujrah is a detailed village map that is used for legal (land ownership) and administrative purposes in India and Pakistan. A shujra maps out the village lands into land parcels and gives each parcel a unique number. [1] [2] The patwari (or village accountant) maintains a record for each one of these parcels in documents called ...

  4. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...

  5. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  6. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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    Cadastral map from 1827 in Austria (Franziszeischer Kataster ) A modern cadastral map for Eastern England. A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. [1] [2] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map.

  7. Plat - Wikipedia

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    The rules normally allow such plats only when all the platted lots remain unsold and no construction of buildings or public improvements has taken place. [citation needed] Other names associated with parcel maps are: land maps, tax maps, real estate maps, landowner maps, lot and block survey system and land survey maps.

  8. Mouza - Wikipedia

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    Today it has become mostly synonymous with the gram or village. Most voter lists, for example, now use the names of villages rather than mouzas. [2] In contemporary Pakistan, a mouza is defined as "a territorial unit with a separate name, definite boundaries, and area precisely measured and divided into plots/khasras/survey numbers."

  9. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Village or Tribe – a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. The population of a village varies; the average population can range in the hundreds. Anthropologists regard the number of about 150 members for tribes as the maximum for a functioning human group.