Przysiółek

A przysiółek is a type of rural settlement in Poland. It is a cluster of several farmsteads outside of the compact development of a village, and may constitute an integral part of it.^[1] According to a 2021 regulation, przysiółek can be used as an official descriptor of the type of locality.^[2] The term is commonly translated as 'hamlet'.

In various regions of Poland, other terms for minor rural settlements are used: rola, kolonia, osiedle, wybudowanie, pustki.

In the Russian language there is a corresponding historical term, Russian: присёлок, romanized: prisyolok, used for rural settlements of the same type. In the historical documents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the Latin-language terms convilla, appendium villae were also used.^[3]