Catherine's Town Catherine's Town Catherine's Town was a Seneca village, ("Queanettquaga," or "Sheoquago") named informally for a prominent Seneca woman, Catherine Montour. It was located at the south end of Seneca Lake, near present-day Watkins Glen (and the towns of Catharine, Montour, and Montour Falls, all named for Catherine Montour) in what is now Schuyler County, New York. The Seneca leader Red Jacket was said to have practiced his speeches at Shequaga Falls, located nearby in the present-day Town of Montour Falls. According to "Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley, Etc..," he was also buried there. Catherine's Town was destroyed by the
Town Isfahan, Tabriz, etc. which have millions of populations are referred to as "Kalan-shahr"کلان‌شهر (metropole). The pace in which different large villages have gained city status in Iran shows a dramatic increase in the last two decades. Bigger cities and towns usually are centers of a township (in Persian: "Shahrestan" (شهرستان). Shahrestan itself is a subdivision of "Ostan" استان (Province). There are four settlements which are historically and officially designated as towns (Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Castletown); however Modern Hebrew does provide a word for the concept of a town: "Ayara" (עיירה), derived from "Ir" (עיר), the biblical word for "city". However,