village (Q653)

Village is a locality composed of a group of buildings, mostly of residential and economic character, but sometimes, also industrial ones (i.e. ironworks, mill) as well as a belonging land, inhabited by people involved particularly in agricultural and construction activities or in farming industry (i.e. blacksmith or mill work), and not having city rights nor a status of a city or a town. Some villages in Early Middle Ages had a right to organise a fair and a market.