thumb|270px|The borough charter of [[Flensburg (1284)]]
thumb|270px|Medieval square in [[Spišská Sobota, Slovakia (now in Poprad). The former name of the town literally means "Saturday in Spiš" and it is derived from a day of week in which the town was granted a right to organize a market.]]
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.
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