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Hanse townsHanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. &
Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h?s band, troop.]
An association; a league or confederacy.
Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany
which associated themselves for the protection and
enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also
Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in
1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At
one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its
remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free
cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns. Townsfolk
Townsfolk Towns"folk`, n.
The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city,
in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township
Township Town"ship, n.
1. The district or territory of a town.
Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided
into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten
miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are
invested with certain powers for regulating their own
affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the
poor. The township is subordinate to the county.
2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a
division of territory six miles square, containing 36
sections.
3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
TownsmanTownsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men).
1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with
another. --Pope.
2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman. TownsmenTownsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men).
1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with
another. --Pope.
2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
Meaning of TOWNS from wikipedia
- some regions,
towns are
formally defined by
legal charters or
government designations,
while in others, the term is used informally.
Towns typically feature...
- the NBA Three-Point
Contest in 2022.
Towns was born in Edison, New
Jersey to an African-American father, Karl
Towns Sr., and a
Dominican mother, Jacqueline...
-
avoid the
development of
ghost towns once a
mining resource has been
fully extracted. The
Middle East has many
ghost towns and
ruins that were
created when...
- Four
Towns or Four
Town may
refer to: Four
Towns,
Michigan Four
Town Lake, a lake in
Minnesota This
disambiguation page
lists articles about distinct...
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communities and settlements,
known in
various areas as "Freedom
Towns" or "All-Black
towns" were
established by or for a
predominately African-American po****ce...
- Look up
paper town in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Paper Towns may
refer to:
Paper Towns (novel), a 2008
novel by John
Green Paper Towns (film), a 2015...
- is no
official Five
Towns designation, "the
basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere,
Hewlett and Inwood." Each of
these "
towns" has a consecutive...
-
Sundown towns, also
known as
sunset towns, gray
towns, or
sundowner towns, were all-white muni****lities or
neighborhoods in the
United States. They were...
- Look up
towns in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Towns are
settlements that are
generally larger than
villages but
smaller than cities.
Towns may also...
-
Macquarie Towns or the Five
Macquarie Towns is the
collective term for the
towns of Castlereagh, Pitt
Town, Richmond,
Wilberforce and Windsor, all located...
