Towns and Cities is a General Codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
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In the Middle Ages, the merchant settlements and villages on major trade routes or around castles became the first towns. They were founded by specialized businessmen, called 'locators' (allocators) Their task was to seek out settlers, to prepare and apportion the land and to build a community. The ruler set down the rights and obligations concerning the locators and settlers, e.g. the level and method of collecting taxes and benefits, town privilege rules of self-government (capital justice rights), trading (market rights and 'one-mile right' - extending to one mile beyond the town walls) and brewing and handling beer (brewing rights). Newly established settlements and cities were often exempt from taxes for a certain period (hence many Czech villages are called 'Lhota or 'grace-period').
Towns were of different types; royal, seigneurial, mining and dowry (which belonged to the Queen). Seigneurial towns were divided into ecclesiastical, secular (feudal) and those of the Royal Chamber.
Apart from the feudal settlements, towns were mostly rectangular in layout with streets perpendicular to a central square featuring a Rathaus (town hall), market and a church. Until the 14th century, the main streets and squares of the largest towns remained unpaved (uncobbled).
