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1. Bastide
   [Provençal manor] A Bastide is a local name for a manor house in Provence, in the south of France, located in the countryside or in a village, and originally occupied by a wealthy farmer. It was larger and more elegant than the farmhouse called a mas and was square or rectangular, with a ti...
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2. Bastide
   [disambiguation] A bastide is a fortified new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the Middle Ages. A Bastide (Provençal manor) can also be a large farmhouse or manor in Provence, in the south of France Bastide may also refer to: ...
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3. bastide
   New town founded in Gascony, France, by Edw ...
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4. bastide
   One of the small fortified towns deliberately constructed to a rectilinear plan during the Middle Ages, especially in the second half of the 13th century under Edward I. Bastides were sited for...
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5. bastide
   planned town of the 12th,13th and 14th centuries,mostly in France,that displayed a return from medieval irregularity to the formal layout of the Roman era.Generally small,with some variation in form to suit local conditions,and enclosed by a protective wall/ditch,the bastide town had a castle and a ...
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6. bastide
   type of village or town built largely in the 13th and 14th centuries in England and Gascony and laid out according to a definite geometric plan. It ... [1 related articles]
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7. Bastide
   Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides. In an effort to colonize the wilderness especially of s...
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