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Market town
settlement that has the right to host markets / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A market town is a settlement in Europe that has the right to have markets. This separates them from villages and cities. A town may be described as a market town or as having market rights even if it does not have a market anymore, provided the right to do so still holds.
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