Z uvedených příkladů vývoje českých vesnic jasně vysvítá, že je potřebí, aby i u nás otázce venkovského osídlení bylo věnováno více pozornosti, neboť studium toto může přinésti bohatou žeň zejména pro ty obory vědní, které se obírají člověkem v jeho vztazích sociálních, kulturních nebo hospodářských.

In the evolution of the rural habitations in Czechoslovakia we may distinguish several phases. The earliest habitations date from before the tenth Century. They were, however, not villages in our sense. The Czech nobility lived in Castles and in connexion with them „burghe" developed. The other inhabitants lived on isolated farms, surrounded4 by their land. In the tenth Century, together with the fqrmation of large estates and with the introduction of Christia-nity, the free areas began to be colonized by prince, nobility, bishop and abbot. Further areas in the border-forest were colonized in the twelfth Century. The thirteenth and the fourteenth Century repre-sent a new period in the development of habitations. In addition to the old isolated farms, villages, burghs, and market-villages, the first towns make their appearance founded according to the emphyteutic law. New villages were also founded according to this law. They distinguish themselves by the regulär arrangement of the field in the „hide" system and by the new village administration with a vfflage-magistrate and with aldermen. In its main lineš colonization had been f inished by the 14th Century. In the war times of the 15th Century many villages were destroyed to be rebuilt only in the Renaissance period. The Thirty Years War had a disastrous influence. After the war much of the hitherto rustic soil came under the direct management of the lords of the manors who transformed it into manorial estates. The Period of Enlightenment brought the division of the large peasant „hides" among the family members and in 1776 the Government began to promete the parcelling out of large estates belonging to the State and partly also to the nobility (Raabisation). Former public and manorial estates were thus transformed into new villages. Düring the 19th Century inner colonization by peasant farms continued. In the second half of the 19th Century another intense colonization took place by the urbanization of rural districts in the vicinity of urban and manufacturing centres. After the Great War land reform gave a new impulse to the development of rural places, manifesting itself in the adding of new farms to existing vililages and even in the foundation of new villages of soil aUotted from former large estates. After this introduction we can proceed to the Classification of rural habitations by the Committee for the Geography of Habitations established with the Czechoslovak Geographica! Society, at Prague, after the proposal of Dr. J. Pohl.