Historical geography of persistence, destruction and creation: the case of rural landscape transformations in Czechia’s resettled borderland

• Authors: Zdeněk Kučera , Silvie Kučerová

Title variants

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF PERSISTENCE, DESTRUCTION AND CREATION: THE CASE OF RURAL LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATIONS IN CZECHIA’S RESETTLED BORDERLAND

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is focused on the discussion of the transformations of the rural landscape in the Czech borderland in the second half of the 20th century. The borderland is presented as a certain entity in this paper. The main processes influencing the functioning of the landscape during the mentioned time period are characterized. Landscape ganges on the local level are detailed using the model area of the Žlutice micro-region as an example.

Keywords

EN

CZECH BORDERLAND; TRANSFER OF THE CZECH GERMANS; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; CZECHIA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historická geografie (Historical Geography)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 165-184

Contributors

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Zdeněk Kučera

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Silvie Kučerová

• Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Albertov 6, Praha 2, Czech Republic