Zeměpisný obraz slovanského světa
Geographical Sketch of the Slavic world

Author(s): František Štůla
Subject(s): Human Geography, Regional Geography, Historical Geography
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: In describing the geographical picture of the Slavic world it is not a description of the territory of this younger Asian colonization, just as it is beyond the scope of this discussion to describe the geographical conditions of Slavic colonization overseas, even if very numerous today. We will be describing the geographical conditions of the "Slavic homeland", that is, the area in which the Slavs have lived since time immemorial, or which they occupied in times so ancient that their settlement has long since erased the memory of those innumerable national units or parts thereof that inhabited these areas before the arrival of the Slavs. And these are only European areas. Today's territory inhabited by Slavic peoples in Europe is not a closed area, nor geographically unified, just as there is no single Slavic nation. It is divided by the German-Hungarian-Romanian wedge into two parts that have no direct national connections. The northern region is inhabited by tribes: Russian, Polish, Lusatian-Serbian and Czechoslovak, southern Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian. It is therefore impossible to present a unified geographical picture of the Slavic territory, but we will adhere to the division into 3 parts, as given by Prof. Niederle in his division of Slavic ethnography: into the area of the Eastern, Western and Southern Slavs, although from a natural-geographical point of view this division is not completely adjacent, but it corresponds to the cultural-geographical classification.

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