The issue of protection and development of the cultural landscape is an integral part of spatial planning at all levels. Progressing from the nineteenth century, interest in natural and anthropogenic landscape over the years has become the basis for conducting this research and the creation of a series of documents. Their result was to legitimize the principles of protection and landscaping by acts of planning. Advanced action in this area conducted by the European countries are beginning to exert more and more emphasis on setting the protection and development of the cultural landscape as one of the main objectives of planning in Poland.
This article attempts to clarify the meaning of the term oppidum used in Silesian documents. Certain aspects of the urban structure of that period have been illuminated by analysing the different senses of the term as applied in the 13th and 14th century chancellery writings. The research was conducted on the example of Silesia on the basis of available archival sources. They have shown that the term underwent semantic changes over the two centuries, which reflected in a significant way the transformations of the settlement network.
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