Shrines are common near most villages and religion is still largely about keeping in harmony with the spirits, especially with ancestors.
Talks are ongoing with the 11 landowners with stakes in the two no-go sections, near the villages of Strete and Stoke Fleming.
Near the villages of Deputatsky and Pervomaysky, an hour's drive from Chebarkul city, whole families of meteorite hunters are hard at work.
Further complicating the situation, two undetonated U.S. missiles hit areas near the villages of Birecik and Viransehir in southern Turkey on Sunday.
United Nations observers in south Lebanon said there was a lull Friday in the fierce ground battles that have been taking place between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah guerillas near the villages of Bint Jbail and Maroun al-Ras.
Even huts in villages near the Carpathian mountains look nothing like villages on the Eastern and the Southern borders.
Police said it "simply could not get to" villages near Burnley, including Briercliffe and Wycoller.
The paramilitaries responded by killing some 45 peasant farmers in villages near the town of Ovejas.
Plans for 1, 000 new homes near two Gloucestershire villages have been approved by the government.
For years campaigners have said cancer rates in some villages near factories and polluted waterways have shot up.
Ch Insp Derry Crorken said police "simply cannot get to" villages near Burnley, including Wycoller and Briercliffe, to check on residents.
The Syrian National Council (SNC) said Hezbollah fighters attacked three villages near the Lebanese border in support of the Syrian government.
Ch Insp Derry Crorken said police "simply cannot get to" villages near Burnley, including Brierfield, Wycoller and Briercliffe, to check on residents.
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Some 500 people, many of them women and children, were said to have been murdered in villages near Lake Tanganyika in Congo .
Israeli troops have taken over several villages near the border.
Several hundred people, mainly Christians, were killed in three villages near the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau state, which lies between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
Caravan parks and villages near Aberystwyth were inundated by floodwater when twice as much rain fell in 24 hours than normally falls in the area in the whole of June.
Tension rose in Macedonia , where a fragile coalition government embraces representatives of the country's Slav Macedonian majority and ethnic-Albanian minority, after fights between ethnic-Albanian nationalist guerrillas and security forces left several dead and sparked an exodus from some villages near the border with Kosovo.
Sporadic explosions and shooting could be heard near rebel-held villages in the area on Friday.
The Peshmerga, backed by U.S. Special Forces, pushed into Kirkuk after a steady northern campaign that saw the Kurds take over nearly 300 villages following a near-constant bombing campaign by coalition aircraft.
On March 20, unrest hit the central town of Meikhtila for several days and then spread to several villages farther south, near the capital Naypyitaw.
Its Villages are retail destinations near European capital cities.
The Associated Press in a rare on-the-ground look unaccompanied by military or security visited two Afghan villages in Nangarhar province near the border with Pakistan to talk to residents who reported that they had been affected by drone strikes.
But more than 2, 000km north of the big city, near the Bolivian border, the traditional villages located high up in the Andean altiplano have not fared as well.
If they return they build modern houses near roads, leaving the fort-like villages to decay into the mountainsides.
Jediaun used to control a gold mine near Dubie, and he gained control over several villages in this largely lawless part of the Congo.
One of these is the 8km walk from Guankeng to Lingjiao, two tiny villages located further north in the mountains near the Jiangxi-Anhui border.
Campaigners say a 14-turbine wind farm planned near Selby in North Yorkshire would "decimate" nearby villages.
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