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There was no uniform system of labelling and describing houses in Themiclesia prior to the first half of the 19th century. While there is a household registry and a land survey maintained by local magistrates, the exact locations of households were not recorded, and land surveys generally described properties (家, ''kra'') with reference to other properties, natural features, and so forth. In rural areas this system seems to have persisted without major change for many centuries since the Meng Restoration and remained a land registration system, but in urban areas survey properties evovled from reflecting current properties into fossilized, permanent divisions on land, irrespective of the actual land title. It is thought that dynasties may have retained the underlying land right, while permanent leasing rights above it changed hands more readily. The underlying right thus became a convenient way to refer to the area. | There was no uniform system of labelling and describing houses in Themiclesia prior to the first half of the 19th century. While there is a household registry and a land survey maintained by local magistrates, the exact locations of households were not recorded, and land surveys generally described properties (家, ''kra'') with reference to other properties, natural features, and so forth. In rural areas this system seems to have persisted without major change for many centuries since the Meng Restoration and remained a land registration system, but in urban areas survey properties evovled from reflecting current properties into fossilized, permanent divisions on land, irrespective of the actual land title. It is thought that dynasties may have retained the underlying land right, while permanent leasing rights above it changed hands more readily. The underlying right thus became a convenient way to refer to the area. | ||
Enrolling of addresses is no longer done on the basis of property registration, so no new addresses can make use of this format. But in rural areas, the ancient address system is still used and can be legally transferred, where addresses take this format: | |||
{{quote|滷挳<br>庇家 | |||
''Raq [county], Kreng [village], the property of Bryits''}} | |||
Note that Themiclesian addresses are written without divisional categories like "county" or "village"; these are implied based on the order in which the names appear, which place larger units ahead of the smaller ones. | |||
Revision as of 12:05, 7 October 2023
The Themiclesian addressing system refers to the method in which houses are numbered and described with reference to their locations.
Pre-modern
There was no uniform system of labelling and describing houses in Themiclesia prior to the first half of the 19th century. While there is a household registry and a land survey maintained by local magistrates, the exact locations of households were not recorded, and land surveys generally described properties (家, kra) with reference to other properties, natural features, and so forth. In rural areas this system seems to have persisted without major change for many centuries since the Meng Restoration and remained a land registration system, but in urban areas survey properties evovled from reflecting current properties into fossilized, permanent divisions on land, irrespective of the actual land title. It is thought that dynasties may have retained the underlying land right, while permanent leasing rights above it changed hands more readily. The underlying right thus became a convenient way to refer to the area.
Enrolling of addresses is no longer done on the basis of property registration, so no new addresses can make use of this format. But in rural areas, the ancient address system is still used and can be legally transferred, where addresses take this format:
滷挳
庇家Raq [county], Kreng [village], the property of Bryits
Note that Themiclesian addresses are written without divisional categories like "county" or "village"; these are implied based on the order in which the names appear, which place larger units ahead of the smaller ones.