Ahamlet is ahuman settlement that is smaller than atown orvillage.[1][2] This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined for official oradministrative purposes.
The word and concept of a hamlet can be traced back toNorman England, where the Old Frenchhamelet came to apply to small human settlements.
InAfghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is theqala (Dari: قلعه,Pashto: کلي) meaning "fort"[4] or "hamlet".[5] The Afghanqala is a fortified group of houses, generally with its own community building such as a mosque, but without its own marketplace. The qala is the smallest type of settlement in Afghan society, outsized by the village (Dari/Pashto: ده), which is larger and includes a commercial area.
Canada's two largest hamlets—Fort McMurray (formerly incorporated as a city)[12] andSherwood Park—are located in Alberta. They each have populations, within their main urban area, in excess of 60,000—well in excess of the 10,000-person threshold that can choose toincorporate as a city in Alberta.[13][14] As such, these two hamlets have been further designated by the Province of Alberta asurban service areas.[15] An urban service area is recognized as equivalent to a city for the purposes of provincial and federal program delivery and grant eligibility.[16][17]
A hamlet (French:hameau) is a group of rural dwellings, usually too small to be considered a village. The termLieu-dit is also applied to hamlets, but this can also refer to uninhabited localities.
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The German word for hamlet isWeiler (German:[ˈva͡ɪlɐ]). AWeiler has, compared to aDorf (village), no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store, no church). The houses and farms of aWeiler can be grouped (in the hills and the mountains) or scattered (more often in the plains). In North West Germany, a group of scattered farms is calledBauerschaft. In a Weiler, there are no street names, the houses are just numbered.
There is no legal definition of a hamlet in Germany. In Bavaria, like in Austria, a Weiler is defined as a settlement with 3 to 9 dwellings, from 10 houses it is called a village. A hamlet does not usually form its own administrative unit, but is part of a larger municipality.[citation needed]
In different states ofIndia, there are different words for hamlet. InHaryana andRajasthan, it is called"dhani" (Hindi:ढाणीḍhāṇī) or"Thok".[18][19][20][21] InGujarat, a hamlet is called a"nesada", which are more prevalent in theGir forest. InMaharashtra, it is called a"pada". In southern Bihar, especially in theMagadh division, a hamlet is called a"bigha". In state ofKarnataka, a hamlet is known by different names likePalya,Hadi (Haadi),Keri, andPadi (Paadi). In olden days, the human population of hamlet was less thanHalli (Village) orOoru (Uru). But in the 20th century with tremendous increase in population, some of these hamlets have become villages, towns, cities or merged with them.
All overIndonesia, hamlets are translated as "small village",desa orkampung. They are known asdusun in Central Java and East Java,banjar in Bali,jorong orkampuang inWest Sumatra.[citation needed]
The Dutch words for hamlet aregehucht orbuurtschap. Agehucht orbuurtschap has, compared to adorp (village), no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store) and contains often only one street, bearing the same name. The houses and farms of agehucht or abuurtschap can be scattered. Though there are strong similarities between agehucht andbuurtschap, the words are not interchangeable. Agehucht officially counts as an independent place of residence (e.g.Wateren), while abuurtschap officially is a part of another place (e.g.Bartlehiem, part ofWyns).
In Pakistan, a hamlet is called agaaon گاؤں ormauza موضع inUrdu,giraaan گراں orpind پنڈ inPunjabi, andkalay کلې inPashto. It is almost synonymous to 'village'.
In Poland, the law recognises a number of different kinds ofrural settlement.Przysiółek (which can be translated as "hamlet") refers to a cluster of farms.Osada (which is typically translated as "settlement" but also can be translated as "hamlet") includes smaller settlements especially differing by type of buildings or inhabited by population connected with some place or workplace (like mill settlements, forest settlements, fishing settlements, railway settlements, formerState Agricultural Farm settlements). They can be an independent settlement, or a part of another settlement, like a village.[22]
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InRomania, hamlets are calledcătune (singular:cătun), and they represent villages that contain several houses at most. They are legally considered villages, and statistically, they are placed in the same category. Like villages, they do not have a separate administration, and thus are not an administrative division, but are part of a parentcommune.
In the Russian language, there are several words which mean "a hamlet", but all of them are approximately equivalent. The most common word is деревня (derevnia, the word meant "an arable" in the past); the words село (selo, from the Russian word селиться (selit'tsa), meaning "to settle") and посёлок (posiolok) are quite frequently used, too. Parallel to many other cultures, a distinction was often thatselo has a church andderevnia has not.
The once common Russian wordхутор (khutor) for the smallest type of rural settlement (arguably closest in nature to the English hamlet) is now mostly obsolete. The state of USSR wanted to have some form of basic infrastructure and central authority at each and every settlement. Obviously, this is the opposite of a hamlet - a place without either for being too small to meaningfully support those. Even without state pressure, once one of the neighboringkhutors got a permanent shop, school, community center (known in Russia as дом культуры, "house of culture"), maybe a medical post, others would naturally relocate closer, drawing together into one village.
Thus, thediminutive form деревенька (derevenka, tinyderevnia) is in widespread, albeit unofficial, use to denote such settlements, which mostly possess the amenities of a village yet the size of hamlet.
InSpain, a hamlet is calledlugar,aldea orcortijada (Spanish:[koɾtiˈxaða]). The word comes from theSpanish termcortijo («estate»). In the South of Spain, the termcaserío (Spanish:[kaseˈɾi.o]) is also used for designating small groups of rural dwellings or farmhouses.
A hamlet in Spain is a human settlement, usually located in rural areas, and typically smaller in size and population than avillage (called in Spain,puebloSpanish:[ˈpweβlo]). The hamlet is a common territorial organisation in the North West of Spain (Asturias,Cantabria andGalicia) dependent on a larger entity (e.g.parish ormunicipality).
In Spain, the hamlet is one of the categories in the officialgazetteer of population entities. In the Royal Order and Instruction of the 8 of March 1930,[23] issued for the elaboration of the Annual gazetteer, the hamlet (aldea) is defined as the population entity with the smallest population and neighbourhood, usually more disseminated than thelugar, though its buildings can be also organised in streets and plazas.
In the four national languages, hamlets are known asWeiler (German),hameaux (French),frazioni (Italian) andfracziun (Romansh). A hamlet is always part of a largermunicipality or may be shared between two municipalities. The difference between a hamlet and a village is that typically a hamlet lacks a compact core settlement and lacks a central building such as a church or inn. However, some hamlets (Kirchwiler) may have grown up as an unplanned settlement around a church.[24] There is no population limit that defines a hamlet and some hamlets have a larger population than some of the smallest municipalities. Generally there are no street names in a hamlet; rather, addresses are given by hamlet name and a number. House numbers might start at one side of the hamlet and continue to the other side or may have no clear organization.
A hamlet may form or have formed aBürgergemeinde (legal place of citizenship regardless of where a person was born or currently lives) and may own common property for theBürgergemeinde.
InTurkey, a hamlet is known as amezra and denotes a small satellite settlement usually consisting of a few houses in the rural outskirts of a village.[25]
In Ukraine, a very small village such as a hamlet usually is called aselyshche orkhutir.[26] There also existed such places likevolia,sloboda,huta,buda, and others.
InEngland, the wordhamlet (having the French origin given at the top of this article) means (in current usage) simply a small settlement, maybe of a few houses or farms, smaller than a village. However, traditionally and legally, it means a village or a town without a church,[27] although hamlets are recognised as part ofland use planning policies and administration. Historically, it may refer to a secondary settlement in acivil parish, after the main settlement (if any); such an example is the hamlet ofChipping which is the secondary settlement within the civil parish ofBuckland. Hamlets may have been formed around a single source of economic activity such as a farm, mill, mine or harbour that employed its working population. Some hamlets may be the result of thedepopulation of a village; examples of such a hamlet areGraby andShapwick. Because of the hillytopography of the parish, the village ofClent, situated on theClent Hills, consists of five distinct hamlets.
InNorthern Ireland, the common Irish place name elementbaile is sometimes considered equivalent to the termhamlet in English, althoughbaile would actually have referred to what is known in English today as atownland: that is to say, a geographical locality rather than a small village.
In theScottish Highlands, the termclachan, of Gaelic derivation, may be preferred to the termhamlet.[28] Also found inScotland more generally isferm toun, used in the specific case of a farm settlement, including outbuildings and agricultural workers' homes.[29][30]
The term hamlet was used inWales to denote a geographical subdivision of a parish (which might or might not contain a settlement). Elsewhere, mostly in England, these subdivisions were called "townships" or "tithings".[31][32] TheWelsh word for "hamlet" ispentrefan[33] (alsopentrefyn). Both these words are diminutives ofpentref ("village") with the loose meaning of "small village".
InMississippi, a 2009 state law (§ 17-27-5) set aside the term "municipal historical hamlet" to designate any former city, town, or village with a current population of less than 600 inhabitants that lost its charter before 1945. The first such designation was applied toBogue Chitto, Lincoln County.
In New York, hamlets areunincorporated settlements withintowns. Hamlets are not legal entities and have no local government or official boundaries. Their approximate locations will often be noted on road signs, however, a specific service, such as water, sewer, or lighting to provide only that hamlet with services. A hamlet could be described as the rural or suburban equivalent of a neighborhood in a city or village. The area of a hamlet may not be exactly defined; it may bedesignated by the Census Bureau, or it may rely on some other form of border (such as aZIP Code, school district or fire district for more urbanized areas; rural hamlets are typically only demarcated byspeed zones on the roads serving them). Others, such asForestville, New York, will be the remnants of former villages, with borders coextant with the previously defined borders of the defunct or dissolved village. Some hamlets proximate to urban areas are sometimes continuous with their cities and appear to be neighborhoods, but they still are under the jurisdiction of the town. Some localities designated as hamlets, such asLevittown in theTown of Hempstead, with a population of over 50,000, are more populous than some incorporated cities in the state.
InOregon, specifically inClackamas County, a hamlet is a form of local government for small communities that allows the citizens therein to organize and co-ordinate community activities. Hamlets do not provide services, such as utilities or fire protection, and do not have the authority to levytaxes or fees. There are four hamlets in Oregon:Beavercreek,Mulino,Molalla Prairie, andStafford.
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