Original scientific paper
Growth of Towns along the Krka River
Mirela Slukan Altić
; Institut društvenih znanosti "Ivo Pilar", Zagrab, Hrvatska
Abstract
The Krka River region with its specific natural featurs and
historico-geographical development has also its specific type
of housing settlement. Over the vast Karst area split along the
middle by the Krka river bed there have grown through history the
settlements with increasing and declining importance following
the wheels of historic changes. The specific quality of this area is
that most of the colonies growing through history, with their ups
and downs and big demographic upheavals, have succeeded in
maintaining their continuity up to the present day.
It is also characterised by a number of rural communities
whose rise and development have been greatly affected by the karst
formations to the point of determining not only the settlement
configuration but also the way of living and economic base. Except
for the coastal area of the Krka rivermouth, the entire area along
the Krka and Čikola watercourses has only three smaller urban
settlements established: Knin, Drniš, and Skradin that still today
function as central towns within a wider area of the Krka River
basin.
Keywords
Urban history; cartographic sources; towns of Knin; Drniš; Skradin
Hrčak ID:
39268
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2008.
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