Every year, countless villages and towns in rural Germany stage their own "Schuetzenfest" or shooting fair.
We humans have been living together in villages and towns and such for slightly more than 12, 000 years.
Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar's southern areas in 2008, destroyed entire villages and towns, killing more than 130, 000 people.
There are still many villages and towns that rescuers are unable to approach.
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In the north, villages and towns came under attack by unknown assailants.
The sludge has caused massive damage to Hungarian villages and towns close to the plant, as well as a wide swathe of farmland.
More than 220 villages and towns in Bulgaria were left without electricity, and toppled trees cut power in several mountainous suburbs in the capital Sofia.
In villages and towns across the state, marathon races and street theatre have joined the cricket matches to try to attract voters to the booths.
"Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, hundreds of villages and towns remain radioactively contaminated and millions of people, many of whom are children, live in these areas, " said Walsh.
During the floods in 2010, the World Heritage site was used as the only safe haven for thousands of flood affected families, staying here until the floods receded from their villages and towns.
Sharifa may be a limping casualty of war, but she and other young traumatized Syrians -- living in tents, crammed in apartments and hiding in villages and towns -- are now the country's future.
The tsunami flattened buildings in fishing villages and port towns, and swept debris miles in land.
The support base for this revolution was not the capital, Tbilisi, the traditional driver of Georgian politics, but villages and small towns, where family structures and individualism were stronger and Soviet rule was weaker.
The council has said that, in total, 17 financially supported bus routes connecting outlying villages and smaller towns with Norwich and the main towns in the county would be affected, with no changes to the other 126 it helps keep on the road.
There are thought to be between 5, 000 and 6, 000 memorials in villages, towns and cities across the country.
The mud continues to flow today, and has displaced more than 16, 000 people, swamping entire villages, factories and towns in toxic sludge.
Commanders and others say the successes of the U.S.-led surge in establishing stability last year and this year in Baghdad and nearby towns and villages have decimated militant leadership and operatives, leading to a decline in attacks.
It covers Bath and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and Western Wiltshire.
Throughout the summer, Weymouth and the surrounding towns and villages, are hosting countless events to celebrate the homecoming of the Olympic Games.
These very low energy bills are not fantasy - they're being achieved in more than 1, 000 villages, towns and cities across Europe right now.
The presence of a Catholic church on the main square in most villages, towns and cities in the region testifies to its influence over civil society.
The plans should see mobile broadband rolled out to at least 98% of people in villages, towns and cities across the UK. This will be achieved through 4G, the fourth generation of mobile technology, which will deliver much faster mobile data speeds to phones and other wireless devices than presently possible.
Along with the citizens of Sarajevo and other besieged Bosnian towns and villages, many of our colleagues were killed and wounded.
Tuscany was the epicentre of Renaissance art, and paintings, frescos and sculptures from the greats such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli and Donatello fill both the museums in Florence and the churches and apses of smaller surrounding towns and villages.
Cornwall cabinet member for housing and planning, councillor Mark Kaczmarek, said: "Some of these properties have been empty for 10, 15 even 20 years and when these are in towns and villages they actually drag down the appearance of the town, they are subject to fire, vandalism, fly tipping and it creates a whole social problem, " he added.
These innovative and entrepreneurial programs are succeeding by increasing access and reducing costs by shifting care from more expensive hospitals and clinics and doctors and nurses to facilities in smaller towns and villages.
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Scores of people have died from exposure in Poland, Latvia and Russia, while dozens of towns and villages in Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine remain cut off by snowdrifts up to two metres deep.
Residential streets currently have no lighting between midnight and 05:30 GMT in eight towns and villages, including Dorchester and Weymouth.
Damage from the tsunami and nuclear accident prompted many to leave towns and villages for big cities, sapping energy out of communities.
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As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.
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