Abstract
All over the world we often find those extra ordinary settlements whose situation are not fixed but move round. Those of the nomadic peoples in Mongolia, Siberia Khirgis, North Europe and Balkan are the most remarkable instances of moving settlements. Those moving settlements are not confined to nomadic peoples'. Hunting and fishing peoples in the colder regions in America, Asia, and Greenland, Koreans and other peoples who live on the shifting cultivation and Pygmies who lives in groups in tropic forests have also their own moving settlements. Gipsies leading their travelling life on their wagons, and mountain nomads in Japan are other similar instances.
The moving settlements of various peoples in various parts of the world have their own different geographical meanings. Their forms, and their terms of movement, therefore, and not always the same; their lives show various aspects.
We shall try to point out their characteristics, and to see in what they are similar to, and in what they are different from, one another.
