TRANSFORMATION OF A REGION WITH DISPERSED FARMSTEAD (EXEMPLIFIED BY THE POLANA MOUNTAIN AND POLANA REGION) (Transformacia krajiny s laznickym osidlenim na priklade Polany a Podpolania)

• Authors: Huba Mikulas
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The Polana Mountain and Polana region are associated with highlanders and their dispersed farmsteads ('laznicke osidlenie'). They are remarkable for their natural and cultural values. The origins of the settlements founded by highlanders coincide with the earliest waves of colonists (Wallachians and small peasants) reaching this region. Industrialization, the growth of new housing estates and the concentration of social-economic activities in several regional centres altered the character of the area. Only after 1990 - when job opportunities were much reduced in local factories - the previous long-lasting trends begin to change and in a number of mountain farms economic activities have been restored. Related with this is the decreased rate of depopulation tendencies. Against the trend of threatening these farmsteads with decay came the trend of their regeneration linked with the conversion of these holdings into permanent or at least temporary holiday housing facilities. Comparatively a great advantage of this region lies in an immense variety of local colours, which may be employed in a sensitive and attractive way.

Keywords

EN

DISPERSED SETTLEMENT; HIGHLANDERS; POLANA MOUNTAIN; POLANA REGION; SLOVAKIA; TRANSFORMATION OF LANDSCAPE

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 312-331
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Huba Mikulas

• Mikulas Huba, Geograficky ustav SAV, Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; www.uet.sav.sk/slovenskynarodopis.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA081110