Degraded Towns in ihe Southern Part of Mazowieckie Voivodship = Miasta zdegradowane w południowej części województwa mazowieckiego

In the southern part of Mazowieckie voivodship, there are numerous former towns possessing a village status nowadays. Most of them were deprived of town privileges between 1869 and 1870, under the Tsar’s regulation. These sites lost the characteristics of urban areas in the slightest degree. The paper analyzes the functional, morphological and demographic situation of such category villages. Some of them were identified as having a chance to regain the town rights.