Dungannon, VA
Dungannon is a town in Scott County, Virginia, United States. The population was 332 at the 2010 census. It was named after the town of Dungannon Dungannon () is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 14,340 at the 2011 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council had its headquarters in the ... in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Dungannon is part of the Kingsport, Tennessee, Kingsport–Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol (TN)–Bristol, Virginia, Bristol (VA) Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City, Tennessee, Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, Tennessee, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities, Tennessee, Tri-Cities" region. History The Flanary Archeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Geography Dungannon is located at ( ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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