A Weiler has, compared to a Dorf (village), no infrastructure (i.e. The German word for hamlet is Weiler ( German: ).
Or the Hameau de Chantilly built by Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé in Chantilly, Oise. The best known is the Hameau de la Reine built by the queen Marie-Antoinette in the park of the Château de Versailles. They were a group of some houses or farms with rustic appearance, but in fact were very comfortable. France ĭuring the 18th century, for rich or noble people, it was fashionable to create their own hameau (hamlet) in their gardens. An urban service area is recognized as equivalent to a city for the purposes of provincial and federal program delivery and grant eligibility. As such, these two hamlets have been further designated by the Province of Alberta as urban service areas. The designation of these urban areas as a "hamlet" is simply to enable their residents to participate in the politics of their surrounding counties. 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 to incorporate as a city in Alberta. Ĭanada's two largest hamlets- Fort McMurray (formerly incorporated as a city) and Sherwood Park-are located in Alberta. In Canada's provinces, hamlets are usually small unincorporated communities within a larger municipality (similar to civil townships in the United States), such as many communities within the single-tier municipalities of Ontario or within Alberta's specialized and rural municipalities. Yukon had two hamlets, both of which had a population of less than 450 people as of the 2016 census.Nunavut had 24 hamlets, with populations ranging from 129 to 2,842 as of the 2016 census and.Northwest Territories had 11 hamlets, each of which had a population of less than 900 people as of the 2016 census.In Canada's three territories, hamlets are officially designated municipalities. 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. The Afghan qala is a fortified group of houses, generally with its own community building such as a mosque, but without its own marketplace. In Afghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is the qala ( Dari: قلعه, Pashto: کلي) meaning "fort" or "hamlet".
Compare with modern French hameau, Dutch heem, Frisian hiem, German Heim, Old English hām and Modern English home. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old French ham, possibly borrowed from ( West Germanic) Franconian languages.
The word comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet, corresponding to Old French hamelet, the diminutive of Old French hamel meaning a little village. Mansikkamäki, a small rural village in Pertunmaa, Finland