## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <settlement>

`<settlement>` | contains the name of the smallest component of a place name expressed as a hierarchy of geo-political or administrative units as in ‘Rochester’, New York; ‘Glasgow’, Scotland.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from names, placePart, typed

Example

    <placeName>
       <settlement type="town">Glasgow</settlement>
       <region>Scotland</region>
    </placeName>

Module | Declared in file teind2; Additional tag set for Names and Dates: enabled by TEI.names.dates
Class | placePart; names; typed

May contain

#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref

May occur within | placeName

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT settlement %om.RR; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST settlement
          %a.global;
          %a.names;
          %a.typed;>

See further | 20.2 Place Names

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