Residual ancient landscape segments in Carpathians of Moravian-Slovak borderland
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Public recreation and landscape protection – with sense hand in hand? |
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| Keywords | pre-industrial landscape, Moravian Carpathians, geotourist objects |
| Description | The Moravian Carpathians border region is a large area located in the east of the Czech Republic. Historically, most of the time it was a peripheral border area between the Czech state and Hungary. Only in the period of the existence of Czechoslovakia (1919-1992), this territory was in the center of the state, when several stages of industrialization of the local economy took place here. The wellpreserved segments of pre-industrial landscape were inventoried here. They have such arrangement of land use, which originated in the period before the main wave of the industrial revolution in the Czech lands (i.e. before 1850), and has been preserved until present. It is documented in the oldest reliable maps, i.e. in a stable cadastre maps from the first half of the 19th century. A total of 182 segments of pre-industrial landscape were identified. Spatial analysis of their location in the area shows that the highest concentration of segments is near the international border (50% up to 10 km from the border), in dissected highland relief (52%), but often in the foothills between 300-500 meters above sea level (51%). Due to their location and appearance, they can represent interesting geotourist objects in the border area. |