Original scientific paper
Historical and actual significance of river Krka within regional gathering and development
Ivo Šimunović
Abstract
Through a synthesis of the author’s earlier research about “the Sibenik region,” this paper attempts to point out some historical, geographical and developmental factors that infl uenced the continuity of several centuries of this area as a regional space. Exploring the factors that had impact on the homogenization of the area the paper
points to pointed to the phenomenon of Krka river, which ,in addition to other factors, had the strongest effect on the structuring and viability of this regional system. Natural and social diversity are often factors of disintegration and prevent the consistency of a
regional space. In spite of the existence of these differences in this very case, never in its history parts of its territory belonged to some other region. Neither this space was divided to, say, northern and southern Krka basin, or its west and east bank. Using therefore
some aspects of the earlier research, we pointed to the strength of the river as natural phenomenon which played a historical role in gathering and development of this space which today, with functional reasons that are currently the most powerful, is called the region of Sibenik.
Keywords
Region; natural phenomena; physiognomy; functionality; regional continuity
Hrčak ID:
117703
URI
Publication date:
22.3.2011.
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