Atlas historyczny Polski a badania nad stanem i strukturą ludności Polski w drugiej połowie XVI wieku
Historical Atlas of Poland and research on the condition and structure of the Polish population in the second half of the sixteenth century

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to trace the evolution of the concept of the Historical Atlas of Poland and, in particular, the role of estimates of the size and structure of the population in the second half of the sixteenth century on maps and in comments in the subsequent volumes of the series. Basing the study of settlements on tax registers provided an opportunity for demographic reconstructions, which were made for two regions of Poland: the Płock Voivodeship and Royal Prussia. The model of working on the atlases was changed in 1964, and minimised the importance of historical demography, limiting its role to grouping settlements according to their size.

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