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Lopušné Pažite
Lopušné Pažite ( hu, Pázsitos) is a village and municipality in the Kysucké Nové Mesto District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. Lopušné Pažite was created by merging the former villages of Lopušná and Pažite in 1946. History Because Lopušné Pažite was merged from two towns, their origins also begin separately. The first mention of the older village Lopušné was in 1572. At that time, the village belonged to the Budatín estate and had one taxed and two untaxed farmsteads with one jailer and was based on Wallachian law. In 1598, the village grew to 7 houses. In 1720, the village grew to 9 taxpayers and jailers. Lastly in 1828; agriculture, sheep farming, and beekeeping became the primary economic focus of the town, and the village had grown to 24 houses and 236 inhabitants. The village of Pažite on is first mentioned in 1662 as a manor, belonging to the Strepnian estate. In 1784, sheep farming became the primary economic focus of the villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
