The investigation is based on the so-called permanent cadastre, i. e. the cadastral mapš dating from the forties of the 19th Century.

Habitations are divided: 1. According to their site in the geographical environment into piain-, valley, slope-, and ridge-settlements.

2. After their ground-plan into:

A. Homesteads (isolated farms).

B. Hamlets which are either 1) scattered or 2) grouped.

C Road-villages, longitudinal, either on one side or on both sides of the road. The cottages stand in rows and are sur-rounded by gardens.

D. Street - villages, with the cottages adjoiniiig each other or separated only by the yard. They either border the street or are separated from it by a tiny garden, often they lie „on the common". They have the aspect of urban streets.

E. River- or brook-villages, on one or both sides (with a road on each bank).

F. Villages with a village green:

a) circular villages (the village green may be star-shaped, circular, square, oblong, triangulär); circular (star-shaped) is the whole ground-plan of the village;

b) oval villages (with a spindle-shaped village green) approaching the circular shape;

c) villages with an elongated village green (forming an oblong with a mariked longitudinal axis, or bow-shaped, L-shaped etc.).

G. Dispersed villages:

a) all cottages are scattered; \

b) in addition to scattered cottages there is a group o f cottages forming the nucleus of the village.

3. After the division of the land in the cadastre of the commune:

A. The primáry village type with an irregulär division of the land. This indicates either an ancient family-farm or a dispersed village dating from the earlier or later colonization.

B. Villages with regulär hides:

a) the radiate type with broadening hides radiating from the cottages to the boundary of the commune. It is found in some circular villages, then in villages situated in the centre of their cadastre or on its border. The lots are generally smali. It is an ancient type;

b) the fan-shaped type with the hides broadening towards the boundary of the cadastre, spreading out in the shape