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The study is focused on evaluation of settlement of the Šariš region in the Sekčov and its tributaries’ river basin. It contains a database and maps with indicated archaeological sites from the Bronze, Hallstatt, La Tène and Roman periods. With regard to the amount and complexity of the obtained information excerpted from the analyses in the GIS environment, we decided to publish the results of the research in two stages, in the chronological order of consecutive periods. In the second stage, we synthesize the research results from the periods of late prehistory and protohistory (Bronze Age, Early and Late Iron Age, Roman period) in the presented publication output. In these periods, we analyse the natural properties of the settled sites in relation to the potential streams and distance from them, to tracing of the main communication corridor, character of the slopes and altitude of the terrain, composition and bonity of pedo-ecological units (BPEU), their typological-production categories (TPC) as well as to other indicators which can be traced in the modern landscape. The suggested settlement zones and their characteristics are finally confronted with the previously published information on settlement in the upper and middle Torysa river basin.