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has glosseng: In the Languedoc-Roussillon region of the south of France, a circulade is a traditional village that has been built in concentric circles. The center, which one might expect to be the site of a château-fort or a parish church, is as often as not, empty, as air photography demonstrates . Though the highly structured circulade plans were not identified as a unique urbanistic phenomenon until 1992, are medieval in origin, dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, two centuries earlier than the planned bastides of the region. The Larousse does not list this neologism for an ancient form of urbanisation, which has been adopted by an association formed to promote these "circular villages"; Jacques Heers included it in this handbook La ville au Moyen Age (Hachette Pluriel, 1992),
lexicalizationeng: Circulade
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has glossfra: Une circulade désigne des villages du Languedoc qui sont bâtis en cercle autour dune église ou dun château fort central. Ces villages datent du Moyen Âge. Un village circulaire nest donc pas une bastide. Ce concept a été proposé par Krzysztof Pawlowski, un architecte dorigine polonaise, sintéressant au patrimoine de lUNESCO, en 1992, dans son ouvrage « Circulades languedociennes de l'an mille ».
lexicalizationfra: circulade
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