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Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and variations of homes existed, but house design generally ...
Another concept in imperial Chinese property rights was dianmai (典賣/典卖), more commonly known as huomai (活賣/活卖), or conditional sales of property [1] that allowed the seller (i.e., his family) to buy back the land at the original price (without interest). The assumption was that land, having been held by a family for generations ...
Korman claimed the average commoner's home did not change much, even centuries after the establishment of the universal style: early-20th-century homes were similar to late and mid-imperial homes. [23] These homes tended to follow a set pattern: the center of the building was a shrine for deities and ancestors, and was also used during festivities.
Choli (Greek: Χόλη) [2] is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km south of Polis Chrysochous. [3] It is home to three churches: the late fifteenth- to early sixteenth-century Arkhángelos Mikaïl church, the fifteenth-century Panayía Odhiyítria Orthodox church and the twelfth-century St George church.
Melandra (Greek: Μελάνδρα, also spelled Μελάντρα, Turkish: Beşiktepe) is an abandoned Turkish Cypriot village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Lysos. Prior to 1974, the village was inhabited by Turkish Cypriots. [2] The village is destroyed, apparently by shelling.
The appellation of the village is purely Greek, belonging to the Cypriot dialect.In this dialect Emba means "enter". It is possible that the name of the village was given because it is built at the entrance of Paphos, that is the edges of the city, through which the travellers from the north, northwest and west came in.
A siheyuan (Chinese: 四合院; [sɹ̩̂.xɤ̌.ɥɛ̂n]) is a type of dwelling that was commonly found throughout China, most famously in Beijing and rural Shanxi. Throughout Chinese history, the siheyuan composition was the basic pattern used for residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family businesses
Lasa (Greek: Λάσα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 2 km west of Fyti.Lasa is a small village in the province of Paphos in Cyprus and it is situated 27 kilometers northeast of the homonymous city, 82 kilometers northwest of Limassol and 151 kilometers southwest of Nicosia.