The chief purpose of the present publication is to provide readers interested in urban history with a data bank in which are collected the available figures for the population development of some 2200 European cities which have had at some time between 800 and 1800 5000 or more inhabitants. The work is in four parts the first being the data bank itself containing information on alternative names sources and maps. Trends in urbanization from 1300 to 1800 are then analyzed. A series of methodological appendixes and an index of primary and alternative names of cities are also included. (EXCERPT)