A Kárpát-medence történeti földrajza

A 2002-2005. évi kutatási ciklusban tovább folytattuk a Kárpát-medence történeti földrajzának feldolgozását. A Kárpát-medence egészére (= 325000 km2 ) kiterjedő témafeldolgozások mellett a makro-, mezo- és mikrorégiók (pl. Alföld, Nyírség, Felső-Tisza-vidék, Hernád-völgy, Bánát, Tokaj-Zempléni-hegység stb.) táj- és erőforrás-használatának idő- és térbeli változásait, a kultúrtáj-magterületek elhelyezkedését és diffúzióját, a földrajzi munkamegosztást, a térszerveződéseket, a régiók kialakulási folyamatait, az interregionális kapcsolatokat, továbbá a népességet és a településeket vizsgáltuk. Egyes témakörök feldolgozásánál a címben megjelölt időhatárokat átléptük, pl. a környezetátalakítás történetét a prehisztorikus időktől tártuk fel. A Kárpát-medence kultúrtájainak kialakítását a magyar és az együtt élő népek monumentális alkotásaként, közös örökségként tekintjük. (Kutatási eredményeinket önálló könyvekben, folyóiratokban és gyűjteményes kötetekben publikáltuk). | Historical geography research of Carpathian Basin (325 000 km2) was continued between 2002-2005. Beside overall projects we did macro, mezo and micro region based researches

A Kárpát-medence tájhasználati rendszere a 18. században

The land-use system of the Carpathian Basin, which developed after the Hungarian conquest, radically changed during the Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th centuries. The cultural landscape and its settlement network in the central plains and hills (Ottoman Hungary accounted for 1/3 of Hungary’s total area) were mostly destroyed. The land-use of areas surrounding Ottoman Hungary, such as Western-Transdanubia, Upper Hungary, and Transylvania, became more intensive, because of the population increase due to the refugees coming from the Hungarian Great Plains and the settlers from abroad. After one-and-a-half-century of Ottoman rule, a state of almost continuous wars, and following Rákóczi’s War of Independence (1703-1711) there began the reconstruction and repopulation of the country, and the reorganization of economic life. The basic structure of the land-use of the Carpathian Basin had evolved by the end of the Árpád Age, which served as a basis for the land-use systems of later ages, like the 18th-century reconstruction of the cultural-landscape and regional development. The study outlines the land-use changes, anthropogenic landscape formation, and the formation of economic space, by showing the characteristic land-use systems of the plains, hills and mountains

A Kárpát-medence tájhasználati rendszere a 18. században

The land-use system of the Carpathian Basin, which developed after the Hungarian conquest, radically changed during the Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th centuries. The cultural landscape and its settlement network in the central plains and hills (Ottoman Hungary accounted for 1/3 of Hungary’s total area) were mostly destroyed. The land-use of areas surrounding Ottoman Hungary, such as Western-Transdanubia, Upper Hungary, and Transylvania, became more intensive, because of the population increase due to the refugees coming from the Hungarian Great Plains and the settlers from abroad. After one-and-a-half-century of Ottoman rule, a state of almost continuous wars, and following Rákóczi’s War of Independence (1703-1711) there began the reconstruction and repopulation of the country, and the reorganization of economic life. The basic structure of the land-use of the Carpathian Basin had evolved by the end of the Árpád Age, which served as a basis for the land-use systems of later ages, like the 18th-century reconstruction of the cultural-landscape and regional development. The study outlines the land-use changes, anthropogenic landscape formation, and the formation of economic space, by showing the characteristic land-use systems of the plains, hills and mountains

Adalékok a Gömöri-medence történeti földrajzához

The Gömör Basin covers approximately the area of the historical Gömör and Kishont Counties. The Gömör Basin (like the interpretation of the Carpathian Basin) forms a single geographical unit together with the Carpathian Mountains and the water basins of the Sajó, Csetnek, Murány, Turóc, Balog and Rima. This kind of interpretation of the basin, the economic unity and complementarity of the two natural landforms, could be typical at the time of the organization of the Hungarian county system. The area of the historical Gömör County rose to 4279 km2 when Kishont (1802) and the Csermosnya Valley (1881) were added to its territory. The county lying in the basin is a perfect geographical unit comprising heterogeneous geological and geomorphological parts, the southern hills divided by river basins and the northern mountains. The mountains are made up of the Vepor and Slovak Ore Mountains. This short paper focuses on a relatively narrow research area of historical geography; the investigation of spatial and temporal aspects of changes in land use up till 1920 based on literature4review, cartographic and statistical sources and empirical studies