The process of dividing a large settlement into multiple hamlets; the development or fragmentation of a region into small villages.
From 'hamlet' plus '-ization' (the process of becoming or making). Describes historical or social processes that create hamlet-based settlement patterns.
Medieval England experienced hamletization when population pressure forced farmers to spread out onto marginal lands, creating the scattered settlement pattern that persists in the countryside today.
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