CHRUDIM, a town of Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, situated in the south-east of the Elbe basin on the Chrudimka, a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. Its fertile surroundings account for the early settlement, dating back to before the 11 th century, and for the disturbed history since it became a small but important regional centre with a progressive German population and many royal privileges. Today its function is that of a market centre with a small development of manufactures that express the na ture of its district, e.g., sugar, spirits, beer, flour-milling and saw mills. Pop. (193o), 13,292, predominantly Czech.