6 sentences with 'villages'
Example sentences and phrases with the word villages and other words derived from it.
• « A special bread is then baked and in some villages the souls are loaded with food: after the all-night vigil, the food has - mysteriously - lost its taste. »
• « One theory about the origins of large-scale settlement is that when enough villages came together to work on these hydrological systems, they needed some form of leadership to direct the efforts, leading to systems of governance and administration. »
• « Farmers lived in "closed" villages where no people were allowed to enter and existing families were not supposed to move in. »
• « The Assyrians deported entire villages or even small towns when they defied the will of the Assyrian kings, resettling conquered peoples as indentured labourers far from their homelands. »
• « The Macedonians lived in villages rather than polis and, while they were recognised as Greeks because of their language and culture, they were also regarded as somewhat parochial by the more 'civilised' Greeks to the south. »
• « The Celts lived in fortified villages and were as quick to raid as they were to trade with their neighbours. »