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]
New town founded in Gascony, France, by Edw ...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...