A town is a populous place bigger or less rural than a village.
The Neolithic town of Khirokitia was situated on the slope of a hill in the valley of the Maroni River towards the southern coast of Cyprus. Khirokitia was one of the first known examples of an organised functional society in the form of a collective settlement. It had a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses. Khirokitia was occupied from the 7th until the 4th millennium BC.
There was a widespread and long-lasting tradition in what is now Southeastern and Eastern Europe of building settlements, and living in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 -80 years. This lasted from as early as 6500 BC (the beginning of the Neolithic) to as late as 2000 BC (the end of the Chalcolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age). The reasons for this are still being researched.
In ancient China, towns were often arranged in patterns so that if seen from above, the whole community would resemble an animal or a symbolic design. Some were arranged to resemble dragons, snakes, stars and sunbursts.
Hippodamus of Miletus (498 – 408 BC), was an ancient Greek architect who is considered to be "the father of European urban planning". Hippodamus developed a new way of laying out the towns and cities of Greece. Using a rectangular grid, he brought together a number of large units, each of which was dedicated to some function of the town's life.
Hippodamus laid out the port town of Piraeus with wide streets radiating from the central Agora, which was called the Hippodameia in his honor.
Plymouth, England, became the first town incorporated by the English Parliament on November 12, 1439. At the time the settlement was called Sutton.
When the town walls of Sutton were built in 1404, the townsfolk were still under the local governmental control of the Priors of Plympton. They petitioned King Henry IV to be granted a charter allowing self-government, but one was not forthcoming. In 1439 another attempt was made, to both King – by then Henry VI – and Parliament and this time Parliament passed an Act giving the place municipal status, the first time that Parliament had granted such powers. The name Plymouth first officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI the following year.
Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida on September 8, 1565. He named the settlement "San Agustín", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. It is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
The North Carolina town of Whynot was first settled in the 18th century by German and English people. The community was originally spelled with two separate words, "Why Not". It has its name because as residents were arguing over a name for the settlement, some person stood up and said "Why not name the town Why Not and let's go home?" And so they did.
The world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill was Cromford Mill, a five-storey cotton mill built in the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, England by Richard Arkwright, the father of the factory system in 1771. Arkwright then built homes for the textile workers, making Cromford the first company town.
World Urbanism Day, also known as "World Town Planning Day" is an opportunity to unite planners and celebrate town planning around the globe. The day was founded in 1949 by Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires, a graduate at the Institut d'urbanisme in Paris, to advance public and professional interest in planning. It is celebrated in more than 30 countries on four continents on November 8th.
Washington is the most common place name in the United States, with 88 different cities and towns throughout the country named Washington. Springfield takes second place and Franklin third place.
The town named Agloe, New York doesn't exist actually exist. Map Makers have made it up to catch people infringing on their copyrighted maps. It's an example of a Paper Town.
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HISTORY
The Neolithic town of Khirokitia was situated on the slope of a hill in the valley of the Maroni River towards the southern coast of Cyprus. Khirokitia was one of the first known examples of an organised functional society in the form of a collective settlement. It had a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses. Khirokitia was occupied from the 7th until the 4th millennium BC.
There was a widespread and long-lasting tradition in what is now Southeastern and Eastern Europe of building settlements, and living in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 -80 years. This lasted from as early as 6500 BC (the beginning of the Neolithic) to as late as 2000 BC (the end of the Chalcolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age). The reasons for this are still being researched.
In ancient China, towns were often arranged in patterns so that if seen from above, the whole community would resemble an animal or a symbolic design. Some were arranged to resemble dragons, snakes, stars and sunbursts.
Hippodamus of Miletus (498 – 408 BC), was an ancient Greek architect who is considered to be "the father of European urban planning". Hippodamus developed a new way of laying out the towns and cities of Greece. Using a rectangular grid, he brought together a number of large units, each of which was dedicated to some function of the town's life.
Hippodamus laid out the port town of Piraeus with wide streets radiating from the central Agora, which was called the Hippodameia in his honor.
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| Map of Piraeus, showing the grid plan of the town |
Plymouth, England, became the first town incorporated by the English Parliament on November 12, 1439. At the time the settlement was called Sutton.
When the town walls of Sutton were built in 1404, the townsfolk were still under the local governmental control of the Priors of Plympton. They petitioned King Henry IV to be granted a charter allowing self-government, but one was not forthcoming. In 1439 another attempt was made, to both King – by then Henry VI – and Parliament and this time Parliament passed an Act giving the place municipal status, the first time that Parliament had granted such powers. The name Plymouth first officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI the following year.
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| Prysten House, 1498, is the oldest surviving house in Plymouth By Pierre Terre, |
Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida on September 8, 1565. He named the settlement "San Agustín", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. It is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
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| View of St. Augustine from the top of the lighthouse on Anastasia Island. By Ebyabe |
The North Carolina town of Whynot was first settled in the 18th century by German and English people. The community was originally spelled with two separate words, "Why Not". It has its name because as residents were arguing over a name for the settlement, some person stood up and said "Why not name the town Why Not and let's go home?" And so they did.
The world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill was Cromford Mill, a five-storey cotton mill built in the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, England by Richard Arkwright, the father of the factory system in 1771. Arkwright then built homes for the textile workers, making Cromford the first company town.
World Urbanism Day, also known as "World Town Planning Day" is an opportunity to unite planners and celebrate town planning around the globe. The day was founded in 1949 by Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires, a graduate at the Institut d'urbanisme in Paris, to advance public and professional interest in planning. It is celebrated in more than 30 countries on four continents on November 8th.
FUN TOWN FACTS
Washington is the most common place name in the United States, with 88 different cities and towns throughout the country named Washington. Springfield takes second place and Franklin third place.
The town named Agloe, New York doesn't exist actually exist. Map Makers have made it up to catch people infringing on their copyrighted maps. It's an example of a Paper Town.
The Arizona town of Why was originally known as just "Y" due to the Y-shaped intersection of two roads. It changed its name to "Why" due to an Arizona state law requiring town names to be at least 3 letters long.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, Canada, is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
Hum in Istria, Croatia is the world's smallest town. Hum has a museum, an inn, a railway station and two churches. According to the 2021 census its population was 52.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, Canada, is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
Hum in Istria, Croatia is the world's smallest town. Hum has a museum, an inn, a railway station and two churches. According to the 2021 census its population was 52.
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| Hum (Croatia) By Ivana - Own work, |
Inhabitants of Arlesey, Bedfordshire (population 5,584) claim it is the longest town in Britain. Its main street is three miles long.
Rudyard, Montana is the only town in the contiguous United States in which you could dig a hole through the center of the earth and emerge from the other side on dry land. (Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean sits opposite of northern Montana.)
Sources Chronicle of The World, Information-Britain
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