THE RACIAL ELEMENTS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

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Germanic irregular villages (Haufendörfer) of the old Germanic areas of unbroken settlement Germanic irregular villages (Haufendörfer) of the area of the conquests in the early Middle Ages
Single homesteads of Keltic (?) origin Single homesteads of various origins
Seigniorial hamlets Round villages, mostly German foundations of the period of East German colonization (from twelfth century onwards)
One-street villages (Strassendörfer) of Slav (?) origin Settlements of Roman origin
One-street villages (with spaced houses, Reihendörfer) with marshlands on the Dutch model, partly founded by Dutch called into the land; mostly founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries One-street villages (with spaced houses, Reihendörfer) with woodlands; founded in the ninth to the thirteenth centuries

The Slav frontier (limes sorabicus) of the time of Charlemagne is drawn from Kiel into the Eastern Alps; the northern and the eastern frontier of Roman dominion in the first centuries A.D. is likewise drawn from the Danube to the lower Rhine. The map shows natural and tribal phenomena, and is only of subsidiary use for racial history.

MAP XX: THE FORMS OF SETTLEMENT IN CENTRAL AND NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE


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