medieval town

collocation in English

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medieval
adjective
uk
/ˌmed.ˈiː.vəl/us
/ˌmed.iˈiː.vəl/
related to the Middle Ages (= the period in European history from about AD 600 to ...
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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofmedievalandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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None the less, in the eyes of the contemporary beholder themedievaltownwas perceived as having different qualities from the encircling countryside.
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Should a plan of streets and plots derived from nineteenth-century cartographic sources be used to map the physical development of amedievaltown?
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It is the most perfectmedievaltownin the whole kingdom.
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We made appreciations months ahead of what would happen if we tried to set fire, after the dry summer season, to thatmedievaltownalmost entirely built of wood.
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We think of themedievaltown, with its walls and its beautiful approach, and contrast it with the town of to-day.
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First, a road may pass through an old, in many cases amedievaltown, and it may be important to build a by-pass there.
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The essential problem does not lie in redrawing the administrative equivalent on a larger scale of themedievaltownwall.
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I confess that that is the natural reaction to a prison set in the beautiful surroundings of amedievaltown.
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Goriano is amedievaltownof about 600 people.
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Excavations within the walls also revealed a section of the earlymedievaltown.
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The area around the lake housed a flourishingmedievaltownand is surrounded by many legends.
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These three were hallmarks of superiority in amedievaltown.
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Here the present church is set and themedievaltowndeveloped around it.
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Narnia, a smallmedievaltown, is situated at the top of an olive-covered hill.
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It is amedievaltowncommanded by a 12th-century castle, with a 14th-century line of walls.
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It is situated atop the hill around which themedievaltowndeveloped.
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In 1934-37 and 1947 the archaeological remnants of themedievaltownwere excavated.
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This earlymedievaltownwas approximately 500 m from the modern one.
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Opened in 1833, the seafront promenade was built themedievaltownand the sea.
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