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Models of Settlements in Someşană Plain (Transylvanian Plain). On the surface of 1846.7 km² of the Someşană Plain, there are 141 rural settlements. The density of the rural settlements, which is on an average of 7.6 villages/100 km ², is above the average value registered at the level of the whole Transylvanian Plain. The average population density of a rural settlement is of 510 inhabitants, much lower than the average density of the Romanian village. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the population and the Someşană Plain settlement (the evolution of the population number, ethnical structure, professional and structures divided on age groups, the training level of the population, the changes which are existent in the municipal structure of the place, as well as the economical development of the locality) foreshadowed the existence of more manifestation modes of the indicators which follow the aspects regarding the human resources and the space in which they deploy their activity. When analyzing the statistical data, several situation can be identified: localities which it is characterized by a balanced ascendant evolution from the           geodemographic characteristics point of view, which have a favorable position potential, situated near the lanes: or at the intersection of a few important circulation arteries;       settlements with a significant descendant development regarding the number of the inhabitants, along with numerous structural modifications (in structure of the population grouped on age, a reduction of the number and weight of the active population) and a dynamic determinant of the pronounced growth of negative migration, and settlements which had a relatively stationary evolution, where the inhabitant’s oscillated number was less then 10%.

Keywords: regressive type of population, agrarian region, subsistence agriculture, 1850-2002 period.