A village is a town that has a small number of inhabitants.
A village is a town with few inhabitants that may even lack its own jurisdiction. It is a settlement that is developed in a rural sector , generally far from other towns.
For example: “Two hundred years ago, this city was just a village” , “The soldiers came to the village to ask for help, but they found rejection from the residents” , “Sometimes I dream of leaving the city and settling in a rural village.”
The etymology of the term takes us to the Arabic al-day'ah , which is made up of two clearly differentiated parts: the particle al- , which can be translated as “the” or “the” ; and the noun day'ah , which means " village ."
Villages throughout history
In the Middle Ages , villages were hamlets that existed around a church or a castle . Next to the houses, there were fields that the villagers were in charge of cultivating.
Today the idea of a village is associated with a very small town . A population or infrastructure growth would turn the village into a town or other similar entity. If a town grows, it becomes a city .
In the Middle Ages, a village was a hamlet surrounded by fields that were cultivated.
An example
One of the most picturesque and well-known villages in Spain is La Aldea de El Rocío . It belongs to the municipality of Almonte ( Huelva ) and is located next to the important Doñana National Park . It is made up of a series of small houses with white facades and has as its main backbone the Hermitage of the Virgen del Rocío .
When the pilgrimage is celebrated in honor of that image, the White Dove , up to a million people can gather in this village. These are devotees, pilgrims and pilgrims from numerous corners of the world who come to the place to venerate that virgin.
global village
The notion of a global village , on the other hand, was proposed by Marshall McLuhan . This sociologist uses it to name the revolution generated by mass media capable of transmitting sounds and images from any space and at all times. Human beings , from these changes, began to have the possibility of being in permanent and close contact with the events that happen, something similar to what happens in a village.
The global village, in this way, is linked to the elimination of physical distances thanks to the development of technological means that communicate with people beyond their place of residence.
A TV series
In addition to everything indicated, we can highlight the existence of a television series that precisely had that term we are addressing in its title.
We are referring to the cartoon production “The Village of Arce” , which was of Anglo-Japanese origin and had its premiere in 1986 . The proposal revolves around animals like Patty Rabbit and Bobby Bear , who lived happily in the same town.