Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. inhabited places
6. [settlements by function]

Anotations

Scope note:

Inhabited places that are the seats of an empire or sovereign or independent states directly under the control of an emperor. Examples are the cities and towns of the Holy Roman Empire that were subject only to the authority of the emperor.