Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.232

Natural and cultural landscape of the Vrgorac-Ljubuški region in selected cartographic sources of the 18th century

Ivan Madžar ; Faculty of Science and Education, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vladimir Pavičić

Abstract

After several centuries of living together under identical social circumstances and within the same political entities, at the end of war conflicts in the late 17th century and the second decade of the 18th century, the Vrgorac-Ljubuški area found itself on the periphery of two imperial systems, at the very border between them. These circumstances triggered the process of shaping new regional identities, as we know them today, within this unified ethno-cultural and ethno-confessional corps. The Vrgorac-Ljubuški area, pre-war periphery of the Ottoman Empire, was thus divided according to the aforementioned war demarcations and fitted into the Military Border, Ottoman, and Venetian space, continuing its complex historical and geographic development on both sides of the border.

Keywords

contact position; historical and geographical development; regional identity; cartographic sources; Vrgorac-Ljubuški micro-region

Hrčak ID:

118891

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118891

Publication date:

30.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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