Why is Oradour-sur-Glane referred to as being a town and not a village on this website?
There are considerable differences between countries as to how they define a City, Town, Village and Hamlet. The definitions used on this website are as follows, City: a centre of habitation containing a Cathedral, a bishop’s See and usually, but not always having a large population. Town: a centre of habitation containing one or more churches and having a regular market. Village: a centre of population containing a church, but without a regular market. Hamlet: a small centre of population with neither church nor market and often without any shops or bakery. Obviously different definitions have applied in the past, for example in pre-Christian times a city (such as Rome) would not have had a Cathedral. It is common to see confusion in the literature about Oradour as to whether it is a town or a village. For example in ‘Oradour the final verdict – The anatomy and aftermath of a massacre’, by Douglas W. Hawes; on page 121: “Pfeuffer said that he had been part of a group which had gone to
