Cadastre

/kəˈdɑːstr/ noun

An official register or inventory of property ownership, land boundaries, and values used for taxation and legal purposes.

From French 'cadastre,' derived from Italian 'catastro,' from Greek 'kata' (down) and 'stichon' (line). Originally a Ottoman taxation record system, it evolved into the modern European land registry concept.

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