Riverhead was a small village of 20 families in 1864.

Outside the city gate of Savatthi was a fisherman's village of five hundred families.

A single village of 40 families in the 1720's made 3,000 barrels of cider.

Hanji-Bough is a small village of 100 families with a population of about 600.

As a result, the traditional kotan disappeared and large villages of several dozen families were formed around the fishing grounds.

In 1596, Yalo was a substantial village of 38 Muslim families.

"There used to be one small village of 20 families," he recalled.

Today, this village of 46 families is trying to reinvent itself as a shrine to ecotourism.

The village of 50 families that had migrated there in 1755 were forced to abandon their homes.

Its a small village of around 200 families.