Krajobraz rolniczy Litwy i tendencje jego zmian
Lithuanian agrarian landscape and the trends of its change

Summary/Abstract: Landscape is not only the environment surrounding people, but also a part of their quality of life, a general combination of culture and nature which arrangement is concurrent with the knowledge of its setup and historical development. The previous 20th century was distinguished in Lithuania for especially fast historical events and radical rearrangement of the agrarian landscape inspired by them, therefore the modern landscape is a manifestation of interaction of previous and current factors with the natural environment.The article familiarises with the most important features of the Lithuanian agrarian landscape. The main components forming its spatial structure are reviewed - settlements and a system of fields. It also briefly introduces past historical events that have had an effect on it, as well as the newest change trends in the agrarian landscape.

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