In Triman, several different ways of organising a household are common. In the rural areas, most live in villages surrounded by a wooden palisade to keep out wild animals, and keep the domestic animals inside. Most cities have stone walls and a keep where the noble ruling the city lives. What is on the inside of the palisade or city walls varies from province to province. Jereman used to have villages surrounded by wooden palisades, that would be defendable in times of war. Then during the time of the three good kings, the villages grew outside the palisades, and many settled on farms next to the village walls, in homes built in the Gradoslavian manner, but without a fence. When the Tulgarian raids started, the border villages were sacked. Some rebuilt them as towns with stone walls, while others migrated to other villages and settled there as well outside the walls. A few such villages remain in the western part of the province. The south and east part of the province now has a few nomadic settlements, mostly with tents, and towns with stone walls. The towns have the church in the center, and the keep of the noble that held the town built next to the gate for extra protection.