Lakes as big as towns were frozen clear across, the wooded slopes around them unoccupied.
Spring is a time of festivals, as towns and villages celebrate the return of the sun.
Referred to as "towns," they include North Town (Severní město), South Town (Jižní město), and Southwest Town (Jihozápadní město).
Eighteenth-century Europe was a period of rapid expansion as towns and ports prospered through trade, business and empire.
It was a time of great violence for the native locals as towns and farms spread over the island.
Amuda has suffered losses during the war, though it is nothing like as battered as towns like Ras al-Ayn or the 80 per cent destruction at Kobani.
In the north, where garrisons were permanently established, quite large trading settlements grew up in their vicinity, and at least some of these would rank as towns.
The town and the community worked as towns and communities are supposed to work: rich and poor, needful and able together, in a triumph of altruism and decency.
The common black-tailed (C. ludovicianus) and Mexican (C. mexicanus) species live in large, dense colonies that early explorers described as "towns".
What followed was a revolutionary change in the nature of work: as towns were established, new specialized occupations developed in commerce, law, medicine, and defense.
(The latter is particularly affected by unauthorised migration, as towns with a large undocumented population will not receive the appropriate, population-based share of federal or state funds).
