Community council the way they operate. Welsh community councils may call themselves town councils unilaterally and may have city status granted by the Crown. In Wales, all town councils are community councils. There are currently three community councils with city status: Bangor, St Asaph and St David's. The community of Caernarfon has the status of a royal town. The chair of a town council or city council will usually have the title mayor. In communities with populations too small to justify a full community council, community meetings will be established. Community councils in Wales now come under the Local Government (Wales) Measure
City status in Ireland originally to the jurisdiction of a capital town, typically the territory of a single conquered tribe. Later it came to mean the capital town itself. When Christianity was organised in Gaul, each diocese was the territory of a tribe, and each bishop resided in the "civitas". Thus "civitas" came to mean the site of a cathedral. This usage carried over generally to Anglo-Norman "cité" and English "city" in England. William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" of 1765 cites Edward Coke's "Institutes of the Lawes of England" of 1634: A city is a town incorporated, which is or hath