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A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.^[1]

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Aakirkeby

Aakirkeby or Åkirkeby is a town in Denmark with a population of 2,117 (1 January 2024).

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Alberto Pasini

Alberto Pasini (3 September 1826 – 15 December 1899) was an Italian painter.

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Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa.

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Althing

The i (general meeting), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland.

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Altrincham

Altrincham (locally) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Arbroath

Arbroath or Aberbrothock (url-status) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus, Scotland, with a population of 23,902.

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Augustus Wall Callcott

Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (20 February 177925 November 1844) was an English landscape painter.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Ólafsvík

Ólafsvík is a small town in Iceland on the northern side of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.

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Banbury

Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England.

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Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor is a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, North Wales.

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Barent Gael

Barent Gael (– 1698) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

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Barnsley

Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blackwell Hall

Blackwell Hall in the City of London (also known as Bakewell Hall) was the centre for the wool and cloth trade in England from mediaeval times until the 19th century.

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Bornholm

Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.

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Borough status in the United Kingdom

Borough status is granted by royal charter to local government districts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Brechin

Brechin (Breichin) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Calderdale

Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 211,439.

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Carolingian Empire

The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Chichester Cross

Chichester Cross is an elaborate Perpendicular market cross in the centre of the city of Chichester, West Sussex, standing at the intersection of the four principal streets.

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Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Banbury and north-west of Oxford.

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Chipping Ongar

Chipping Ongar is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of the county of Essex, England.

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Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Cirencester

Cirencester (see below for more variations) is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, west of London.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Colchester

Colchester is a city in northeastern Essex, England.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Cornelis Pietersz Bega

Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn (1631/32 – 27 August 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.

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Cornelis Springer

Cornelis Springer (1817–1891) was a Dutch 19th-century cityscape painter.

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Counties of Iceland

Iceland was historically divided into 23 counties known as sýslur, and 23 independent towns known as kaupstaðir.

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Cowbridge

Cowbridge (Y Bont-faen) is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately west of the centre of Cardiff.

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Cupar

Cupar (Cùbar) is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland.

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Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.

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Danish trade monopoly in Iceland

The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly (Icelandic: Einokunarverslunin) was the monopoly on trade held by Danish merchants in Iceland in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Downham Market

Downham Market, sometimes simply referred to as Downham, is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Esslingen am Neckar

Esslingen am Neckar (Swabian: Esslenga am Neckor; until 16 October 1964 officially Eßlingen am Neckar) is a town in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, seat of the District of Esslingen as well as the largest town in the district.

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Excise

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Export

An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country.

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Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Floridsdorf

Floridsdorf (Fluridsduaf) is the 21st district of Vienna (21.), located in the northern part of the city and comprising seven formerly independent communities: Floridsdorf, Donaufeld, Greater Jedlersdorf, Jedlesee, Leopoldau, Stammersdorf, and Strebersdorf.

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Ford (crossing)

A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.

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Framlingham

Framlingham is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

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Frances Elizabeth Wynne

Frances Elizabeth Wynne (1836 – 13 January 1907) was a prolific amateur artist who sketched many scenes in Britain and Europe.

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects.

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Funen

Funen (Fyn), with an area of, is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German town law

The German town law (Deutsches Stadtrecht) or German municipal concerns (Deutsches Städtewesen) was a set of early town privileges based on the Magdeburg rights developed by Otto I. The Magdeburg law became the inspiration for regional town charters not only in Germany, but also in Central and Eastern Europe who modified it during the Middle Ages.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Grote Markt, Antwerp

The italic ("Big Market") is the central square of Antwerp, Belgium, situated in the heart of the old city quarter.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Hallamshire

Hallamshire (or Hallam) is the historical name for an area of South Yorkshire, England, approximating to the current City of Sheffield local government area.

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Halmtorvet

Halmtorvet (English: The Haymarket) is a public square in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.

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Hebden Bridge

Hebden Bridge is a market town in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England.

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Hedeby

Hedeby (Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

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History of marketing

The study of the history of marketing, as a discipline, is meaningful because it helps to define the baselines upon which change can be recognised and understand how the discipline evolves in response to those changes.

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History of the Jews in Poland

The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.

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Horncastle

Horncastle is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, England.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.

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Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.

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Import

An importer is the receiving country in an export from the sending country.

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Invalidenstraße

The Invalidenstraße is a street in Berlin, Germany.

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Inverurie

Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Uraidh or Inbhir Uaraidh, 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Иван Константинович Айвазовский) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.

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Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove

Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove (c. 1620/25 – 1703/04) was a Flemish painter of cityscapes, architectural paintings, marine views and group portraits who was active in Bruges.

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Jan Weissenbruch

Jan Weissenbruch (1822, The Hague – 1880, The Hague) was a 19th-century Dutch painter.

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Joachim Beuckelaer

Joachim Beuckelaer (c. 1533 – c. 1570/4) was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment.

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Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost de Momper the Younger (1564February5, 1635) was a Flemish landscape painter active in Antwerp between the late 16th century and the early 17th century.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland, Jyske Halvø or Cimbriske Halvø; Jütland, Kimbrische Halbinsel or Jütische Halbinsel) is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).

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Køge

Køge (older spelling Kjøge) is a seaport on the coast of Køge Bugt (Bay of Køge) 39 km southwest of Copenhagen.

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Kelso, Scottish Borders

Kelso is a market town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

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Lambourn

Lambourn is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

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List and Index Society

The List and Index Society (L&IS) is a United Kingdom learned society that publishes finding aids, calendars and editions of archival records.

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List of forts in Norway

Norwegian fortresses or fortifications have been constructed from some of the earliest recorded periods, down through the 20th century.

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List of towns and cities in Norway

This is a list of towns and cities in Norway.

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Magna Carta

(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Malmesbury Market Cross

Malmesbury Market Cross is a Grade I listed, late 15th century structure in the town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England.

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Mark Girouard

Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) was a British architectural historian.

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Market cross

A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron. Market town and market cross are market towns.

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Market Deeping

Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road.

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Market Drayton

Market Drayton is a market town and civil parish on the banks of the River Tern in Shropshire, England.

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Market hall

A market hall is a covered space or a building where food and other articles are sold from stalls by independent vendors.

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Market Harborough

Market Harborough is a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, close to the border with Northamptonshire.

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Market house

A market house or market hall is a covered space historically used as a marketplace to exchange goods and services such as provisions or livestock, sometimes combined with spaces for public or civic functions on the upper floors and often with a jail or lockup in the cellar or basement floor.

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Market Rasen

Market Rasen is a market town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Market square

A market square (also known as a market place) is a square meant for trading, in which a market is held. Market town and market square are retail markets.

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Market Weighton

Market Weighton is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Marketing

Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.

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Marketplace

A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. Market town and marketplace are retail markets.

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Markt Berolzheim

Markt Berolzheim is a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Marktbergel

Marktbergel is a municipality in the district of Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim in Bavaria in Germany.

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Mercat cross

A mercat cross is the Scots name for the market cross found frequently in Scottish cities, towns and villages where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Minchinhampton

Minchinhampton is a Cotswolds market town and a civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, South West England.

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Miskolc

Miskolc (Czech and Miškovec; Mischkolz; Mishkoltz; Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry.

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Model Parliament

The Model Parliament was the 1295 Parliament of England of King Edward I. The term Model Parliament was first attributed to Frederic William Maitland.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Monnow Bridge

Monnow Bridge (Pont Trefynwy), in Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in Great Britain with its gate tower standing on the bridge.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Municipal charter

A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town.

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Nagykanizsa

Nagykanizsa (Velika Kaniža/Velika Kanjiža, or just Kaniža/Kanjiža; Großkirchen, Groß-Kanizsa; Canissa; Velika Kaniža; Kanije), known colloquially as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Zala County in southwestern Hungary.

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Nailsworth

Nailsworth is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England, lying in one of the Stroud Valleys in the Cotswolds, on the A46 road (the Roman Fosse Way), south of Stroud and about north-east of Bristol and Bath.

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National Market Traders Federation

The National Market Traders' Federation is an organisation based in the borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

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Newport, Shropshire

Newport is a market town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England.

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Northampton

Northampton is a town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Oldest town in Britain

The title of oldest town in Britain is claimed by a number of settlements in Great Britain.

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Ottoman Hungary

Ottoman Hungary (Török hódoltság, literally "the Turkish subjugation") encompassed those parts of the Kingdom of Hungary which were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire from the occupation of Buda in 1541 for more than 150 years, until the liberation of the area under Habsburg leadership (1686–1699).

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Oxbow lake

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.

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Painswick

Painswick is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England.

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Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

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Peddler

A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.

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Petrus van Schendel

Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870) was a Dutch-Belgian genre painter in the Romantic style who specialized in nighttime scenes, lit by lamps or candles.

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Pieter Aertsen

Pieter Aertsen (1508, Amsterdam – 2 June 1575, Amsterdam), called Lange Piet ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

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Plantation of Ulster

The Plantation of Ulster (Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulstera province of Irelandby people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I. Most of the settlers (or planters) came from southern Scotland and northern England; their culture differed from that of the native Irish.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Porsgrunn (town)

is a town and the administrative centre of Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Provisions of Oxford

The Provisions of Oxford were constitutional reforms to the government of late medieval England adopted during the Oxford Parliament of 1258 to resolve a dispute between Henry III of England and his barons.

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Railway track

A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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Røros (town)

Røros (Plassje) is the administrative centre of Røros municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.

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Ribe

Ribe is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,295 (2024).

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roxburgh

Roxburgh is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Royal free city

Royal free city or free royal city (Latin: libera regia civitas) was the official term for the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary from the late 12th century until the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

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Runnymede

Runnymede is a water-meadow alongside the River Thames in the English county of Surrey, bordering Berkshire and just over west of central London.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.

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Samuel Ireland

Samuel Ireland (21 May 1744 – July 1800), English author and engraver, is best remembered today as the chief victim of the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries created by his son, William Henry Ireland.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Holsten; Sleswig-Holsteen; Slaswik-Holstiinj; Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Schmölln

Schmölln is a town in Thuringia, Germany, landkreis of Altenburger Land.

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Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Cumbria.

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Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Selkirk is a town and historic royal burgh in the Scottish Borders council district of southeastern Scotland.

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Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia

The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia (SJE; Kratkaya Yevreyskaya Entsiklopedia) was published in 11 volumes in Jerusalem from 1976 to 2005 in Russian by the Society for Research on Jewish Communities with the support of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Shtetl

Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Market town and shtetl are types of towns.

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Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (– 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was an English nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the baronial opposition to the rule of King Henry III of England, culminating in the Second Barons' War.

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Skibotn

,, or is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Skjern, Denmark

Skjern is a railway town just north of the Skjern river in western Jutland, Denmark with a population of 7,839 (1 January 2024).

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Smuggling

Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.

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Sorø

Sorø is a town in Sorø municipality on the island of Zealand in east Denmark with a population of 8,400 (2024).

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South Tyrol

South Tyrol (Südtirol,; Alto Adige,; Südtirol) is an autonomous province in northern Italy.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Sowerby Bridge

Sowerby Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh.

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Storfjord Municipality

, (Northern Sami), or is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Svendborg

Svendborg is a town on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark, and the seat of Svendborg Municipality.

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Sybrand van Beest

Sybrand van Beest (c.1610 – 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Târg

A târg was a medieval Romanian periodic fair or a market town.

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Tønsberg

Tønsberg, historically Tunsberg, is a city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.

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Telford

Telford is a town in Shropshire, England.

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Telford and Wrekin

Telford and Wrekin is a borough and unitary authority in Shropshire, England.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Todmorden

Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Town council

A town council, city council or municipal council is a form of local government for small municipalities.

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Town privileges

Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.

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University of London

The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom.

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University Press of Southern Denmark

University Press of Southern Denmark is Denmark's largest university press and was founded in 1966 as Odense University Press (Odense Universitetsforlag).

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Urban settlement

An urban settlement is a concentrated settlement that is part of an urban area.

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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.

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Vladimir Makovsky

Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Владимир Егорович Маковский; – 21 February 1920) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher.

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Weeze

Weeze (Dutch: Wees) is a municipality in the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) region, located in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, specifically in the district of Kleve and the Düsseldorf region.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen; Westfalen) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Wigtown

Wigtown ((both used locally); Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland.

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Worsted

Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.

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Woudrichem

Woudrichem (Brabantian: Woerkum) is a city and former municipality in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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Zaltbommel

Zaltbommel, also known, historically and colloquially, as Bommel, is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands.

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Zealand

Zealand (Sjælland) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size).

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1970 Danish Municipal Reform

The 1970 Danish Municipal Reform was an extensive administrative reform in Denmark which on 1 April 1970 reduced the number of Danish municipalities from 1,098 to 277 and the number of counties from 25 to 14.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_town

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