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This paper presents a part of anthropogeographic research of population and its origin in one of the oldest and historically most important settlements at the territory of Zmijanje, a smaller regional area in the western part of Srpska Republic. The settlement, which has always been populated with ethnic Serbs, is today facing an extreme outflow of population, being at the edge of its survival.
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Dreznica is a relatively isolated rural micro region in limestone area of Velika Kapela in a western Croatia. It has been populated by Serbian people in the period of Australian Vojna Krajna. Afterwards, until the Second World War this area gave a lot of emigrants but still was densely populated due to high natural increase. The lost of population due to wars, emigration and depopulation caused a lot of problems. Nowadays more people originating from Dreznica are living out of Serbia.
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This paper is dedicated to the work of a great Serbian geographer Jevto Dedijer. He was entrusted with development of anthropogeography by Cvijić. Dedijer’s seminal work is Herzegovina – an Anthropogeographic Study. Due to his commitment, Dedijer grew into an outstanding geomorphologist and glaciologist. He wrote papers in karstology, geology, geography of settlements, regional geography and papers on national issue. His favorite topics were herding and migration of livestock, but he became famous for his works in anthropogeography.
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The article deals with the description of dynamic peculiarities in the name system of Lyntupy situated in the western border part of Vitebsk region under existing conditions of close historical and cultural contacts with adjoining regions in the second part of XXth century. The specificity of the adaptation process of Catholic personal names in Russian – Belarusian language environment is studied.
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As represented in Balkan cinema – and here we mainly look at cinematic texts created in the context of former Yugoslavia’s constituent republics -- the artist is suspect. The presence of the artist is awkwardly tolerated – because the artist is alien, cosmopolitan, and extraneous. He may react in unpredictable ways or have eccentric wishes. The artist may seek fame but no fame can come. The artist is insufficiently Balkan. He is better off being abroad. Even where films put the artist in the centre of attention, there is indolent insufficiency in representing the artist. In this playful exploration, we look at various cinematic texts that have provided commentary on the status of the artist in a Balkan context. The concept of ‘Balkan’ used here is not a geographical category but rather complies with the definition given in my book Cinema of Flames (2001) as well as, occasionally, is used in the sense implied by Marina Abramovic in her short Balkan Erotic Epic (2011).
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Любой исторический город несет в себе те или иные следы своего прошлого. Это памятные места, архитектурные сооружения, старые названия и т.п. Но это могут быть и культурные коды, знаки, символы, образы. Н.П. Анциферов главным в понимании города считал познание его «души» на основе единства его исторического развития, природы, архитектурного пейзажа, духовной жизни. Душу города можно почувствовать через его «запахи, звуки, краски, формы, игру света и тени, пространство» . Признаем ограниченность восприятия города как «цельного культурно-исторического организма» иностранными посетителями, но одновременно это и «свежий» взгляд со стороны, подмечающий главное и необычное. Поэтому наблюдения иностранцев, несмотря на свойственные им недостатки, позволяют создать образ(ы) города.
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Мы не можем основываться исключительно на результатах исследования пещер у Южных ворот и должны учесть артефакты из слоя, образовавшегося ниже их по склону. Есть все основания считать, что он стек с поверхности плато, и, в таком случае, может содержать предметы, используемые священнослужителями, создавшими изучаемый культовый комплекс. Кроме того, изучение содержания слоев, образовавшихся в пещерах после их оставления, позволяет датировать это событие. Учитывая эти обстоятельства, опишем артефакты, найденные М. Я. Чорефом во время раскопок изучаемого пещерного комплекса.
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Archaeological and epigraphic sources allow to reveal external (state) and internal (administrative) borders between countries of the South Siberian region in the 6th—14th centuries. So, funerary sites with some Turkic sculptures, well distinguishable from similar objects of other Turkic people, seem to be an indicator of external borders of the First and Second East Turkic khaganates. Where they are absent, there was no Turkic domination. The northern border of the Uigur khaganate is noted by pise-walled fortresses and a 230 km long wall that connects them. Old Khakassia stone fortresses protecting passes in Western Sayan Mountains also show that borders of this country passed across ridges. But with expansion of the country from the second half of 9th century, the rivers became borders. It is evidenced by placement of military cemeteries of the ancient Khakass found on only the right coast of the Irtysh River. Two Mongol towns which had typical buildings for the Mongols, appear to be centers of two administrative districts. The old Khakassia family and personal heraldry is familiar to a series 9—10th centuries connected with marks in epitaphs and rocks, specified hereditary land use, outlining borders of possessions in Tuva and in Khakassia.
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The report presents key issues of the competitiveness of intermediation in medical tourism. The essence of tourist intermediation is clarified in the creation and realization of trips in order to improve or restore health through medical intervention. It has been made a differentiation between the tour operator and tour agent in the medical tourism industry. A competitiveness concept for the intermediate agency for medical tourism has been developed. The competitive environment of the medical-tourism intermediator is analyzed on the basis of the definition of factors concerning the surrounding environment (general surrounding), factors of the medical-tourism branch (operational environment) and internal factors (factors of the tourist intermediary). There are suggested guidelines for increasing the competitiveness of intermediation activity in medical tourism.
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Corporate networks are an independent basis for providing information services. An existing problem is the specificity of functionality in the service of subscribers, coupled with the development policy of the corporation. An exemplary solution for a multifunctional telecommunication network is presented.
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Research of and respect for environmental, economic, and socio-cultural principles in the process of creating the material basis are one of the key preconditions for the sustainable development of tourism. The aggravating circumstances when ensuring sustainability-such as creating new and improving the existing material basis (renovation, reconstruction and modernization)-are the expectations of those who create the market demand as a driving factor of the overall development of tourism. The sustainable approach to creating the material basis for tourism requires serious study, planning, and management of the above-mentioned principles in order to secure extensive long-term investments. Numerous environmental groups insist on finding ways to keep the environment healthy and clean without stopping the economic growth, which is one of the global issues in creating the material basis for tourism. In addition to the shareholding and loan capital, one of the ways of financing infrastructure systems is a public-private partnership that involves sharing both benefits and responsibilities and risks in the process of building the material basis, in accordance with the requirements of ecology, economics, and sociology.
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This paper considers the possibility of developing astro-tourism in small countries such as Serbia and other Balkan countries, with "discreet" astro-tourism reduced to naked-eye astronomy as part of mass tourism rather than elite tourism that is realized through specialized programs with spacecraft and space stations, spectacular planetariums and observatories with giant telescopes. The specific relationship between the virtual and the real world is highlighted in this paper especially when considering younger generations. Furthermore, the differences in the way stars are perceived by astronomers and "ordinary" tourists or non-astronomers is also emphasized. Tourists are not enchanted by celestial bodies themselves, but by a complete scene, which consists of integrated skyscapes and landscapes, as a complex stage where in various combinations and forms these celestial bodies are observed, and of their own experience. These complex sky-earth landscapes, astro-landscapes, present astro-tourism resources of the small countries like Serbia, provided that a tourist can "read" their astronomical text. In this regard, Belgrade was used as the example for drafting a "package" of astronomical information that can be easily prepared and adapted according to the needs of a particular group, so that every tourist may know what can be seen, where and when. With the help of a rotating star map (planisphere), visitors may observe the sky with the naked eye.
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Spa tourism, as one of the leading forms of tourism in Serbia, is a significant factor in local and regional socio-economic phenomena and processes. This paper deals with the impact of spa tourism on local demographic changes. The analysis includes nine most important spas in Serbia, in accordance with the achieved tourist traffic. The influence of tourism in different spas, in the last four decades, on dynamic changes in their population is taken into account. The paper analyzes the extent to which the change in the population of spa settlements have taken place differently from changes at the wider municipal and republic level. Furthermore, in order to fully understand the importance of tourism for demographic processes, a change in participation of the employed local population in the tourism sector was also analyzed. The results show that tourism has a significant impact on the population of spa resorts. In forty years that were observed, regardless of general depopulation trend in Serbia, in most of the analyzed spas there was an increase in the number of inhabitants, and the highest growth rates were recorded in periods of the most intensive tourism development. The increase in the number of inhabitants of spa settlements was accompanied by the increase in the economic activity of the local residents in the tourism sector.
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In the late 19th – early 20th cc. the Russian imperial authorities were concerned with the fast expansion of the photography. As a result, the public administration undertook efforts to get the new technology under the censorship control. The aim of the article is to reveal the theory and practice of the governmental regulation of photography in the Russian empire. Basing on the wide range of archival sources, the author uses traditional methods of the historical study to describe the photography censorship in Russia and employs the approach of microhistory to find out how the censorship affected the everyday life of professional and amateur photographers. The lack of the studies devoted to the relationship between the public authorities and photography in the Russian empire determines the scientific novelty of the paper. From the early 1860ties, both private persons who owned cameras and commercial photographic studios were placed under surveillance of the inspector of publishing facilities and bookstores. Professional photographers were obliged to put their names on all images they produced and keep an account of all their clients. Any photographic activity outside the studio required a special permission of the local authorities. Only members of the photographic societies were allowed to take pictures everywhere in Russia (with an exception of military objects and borderlands) having no certificate from the local governor’s office. Taking and publishing pictures of the ruling dynasty members and their residences required a special permission as well. The censorship controlled sharing of the photographic reproductions of the fine art works. The paintings, which (from the censor’s perspective) either propagated revolutionary and separatist ideas or threatened the reputation of the monarchy and Orthodox Church, were prevented from exhibiting. The local authorities used to confiscate the photographic reproductions of such paintings. As far as erotic materials were banned completely, the censors paid special attention to any photographic images depicting nudity. The author comes to conclusion, that despite the regulations were strict, the whole system of the state control over the photography was rather ineffective. Having no single law defining benchmarks for evaluating the pictures or even a list of the images banned throughout an empire, the censors used to act selectively. Furthermore, in big cities, such as Kyiv, they were too busy to control dozens of photographic studios and amateur photographers. As a result, both photographers and local civil servants ignored most of the regulations.
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The purpose of the article is to develop the conceptual framework for the regional economic space security on the basis of the authors’ method of cyclic gradation. The subjects of the Russian Federation are considered as regions. The research attempts several objectives. The first one is to reveal the specificity of both the economic security in the conditions of the existing geoeconomic tensions and import substitution policy initiated in 2014 and. Secondly, this study seeks to consider the relevant approaches to the analysis of regional economic security. Thirdly, we aimed at substantiating the spatial specificity of economic security at the regional level. And last, we suggest the method of cyclic gradation for the analysis of economic space security. The subjects of the Russian Federation face their own conceptual problems and challenges. One of these challenges is the increasing scale of integration processes. This situation is due to the asymmetric development of the Russian regions. In particular, the concentration of business activity in Moscow and several other subjects of Russian Federation, which are formally or informally recognized as strategic regions for the country development, demonstrates this asymmetry. The assessment of the economic security of Russian regions is conditioned by some methodological problems. In fact, the monitoring of socio-economic situation at the regional level does not consider the entire range of economic relations between business entities (companies). To develop the tools for the analysis of economic security at the regional level, the authors suggest to use in the system of monitoring such indicators as the average size of economic space, the quality of economic space, the intensity of economic space, the information availability, and the level of synchronization of economic time.
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The village Bela Voda is situated on the left bank of the Zapadna Morava, 14 km north-west from Krusevac. Numerous archeological sites are recorded and they testify about the population of this area since the Neolithic ie. a period when people started to do agriculture until nowadays. Bela Voda was founded, according to legend, in the time of Prince Lazar. It was destroyed and rebuilt for many times, and after the liberation from the Turks, in the mid 19th century, it experienced its full cultural and economical prosperity. During the last 150 years the residents of Bela Voda, gave great care to education and culture and achieved a lot in these fields. Today Bela Voda is a settlement facing numerous demographic problems. Natural, social and economic factors are the most imported for the demographics development of Bela Voda (small birth rate, growth death rate, negative natural increase). Demographic and economic development depends of demographic processes last few decades.
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Serbs in Slovenia are an indigenous community that has raised their habitat in Bela Krajina in the 16th Ages. As centuries have passed, number of native Serbs in Slovenia declined and in the last, 2002 census total number of Bela Krajina Serbs barely exceeded one hundred members. The paper describes how did four Serbian villages in Bela Krajina incurred (Milici, Paunovici, Marindol and Bojanci) as well as ethnic composition, language and religion of the Serbian population oasis in the municipality Crnomelj.
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The article offers a description and analysis of the agronyms (place names / field or pasture designations) as part of the toponymy of the village of Kutovo (Vidin district). The toponymic system under scrutiny has common characteristics both with the bilingual toponymic system typical of the Far North-West of Bulgaria and along the river Danube, and with the monolingual one, which is typical of the region of Vidin.
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Review of: "Белорусская ономастика. Топонимия: учебное пособие"; А. М. Мезенко [и др.]; под общ. ред. А. М. Мезенко; Минск : Элайда, 2012, 260 с. by: Monika Famielec
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