city / town (Q138): Difference between revisions

During those periods, when legal status of localities was established and defined, cities/towns were granted specific municipal rights (location bill), which should be considered as an auxiliary indicator for distinguishing cities/towns. A city/town may consists of other settlement units, like: a core city/town (a founded one), a district, a suburb, a castle, a gord. At least from the 13th to the 18th century, two parallel notions existed: general (meaning the whole settlement unit with its own society, economy, and urban structure, perceived mostly by intuition), and a city in its political and legal meaning, as a community with an extensive autonomy. As a consequence, cities within other city or units lying partly in and partly outside the city existed. For these complex structures, in this project, first explanations of the city should be applied.