КАТЕГОРИЯ «ЛЕГЕНДАРНЫЙ ГОРОД» И ЕЕ ФУНКЦИИ ДЛЯ ГЕОИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО РЕГИОНА (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ДНЕПРОВСКОГО НАДПОРОЖЬЯ)

Author(s): O.E. Afanasyev,A.E. Trotsenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2013

Современный ландшафт в географии давно перестал быть просто территорией, превратившись в сложную систему пространственно-смысловых значений. В этом ракурсе в объект географических исследований входят мифические, легендарные географические объекты как сложные пространственно-ментальные системы, основанные на представлениях людей о территориях, на образах мест. Особое место в этих системах занимают «легендарные города» — известные из тех или иных исторических источников населенные пункты, которые на сегодняшний день не локализованы достоверно в пространстве. С ни- ми, как правило, связан огромный информационно семиотический пласт, являющийся неотъемлемой частью духовной культуры народа.

One Decade of the “Lusi” Mud Volcano: Physical, Chemical, and Geological Dimensions

Author(s): Nadi Suprapto,Akhmad Zamroni,Eri Andrian Yudianto / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

In this article, we have raised more recent phenomenon of mud volcano disaster since May 2006 until now in Sidoarjo, East Java- Indonesia. This rare occurrence has invited the public to enjoy, even for scientist as a mean of doing research or for public as a curiosity. A mud volcano is a geological formation created by the expulsion of pressurized gasses and mud from below the Earth’s crust. By using a systematic review process, the authors review the phenomena by using physical, chemical, and geological approaches. The review process comprises five phases: framing questions for a review, identifying relevant work, assessing the quality of studies, summarizing evidences, and interpreting the findings. The results show the physical and chemical dimensions of mud volcano and depict to what extent the physical and geological efforts to stop the disaster. In this study, there are some additional references and sources of new knowledge for scientists, citizens, and government.

Проучване на потребителския интерес към селскотуристическия продукт в региона на Средните Родопи

Author(s): Ivanka Lulcheva,Slavena Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2017

The abundance of diverse and well-preserved natural features specific heritage and anthropogenic factors make the territory of the Middle Rhodopes attractive for tourism during all seasons of the year. Many of the villages in the region over the past 20 years have established themselves as destinations for rural tourism. The paper summarized the results conducted among residents of the municipalities of Plovdiv, Pazardzhik and Stara Zagora survey on opinions and attitudes towards rural tourism product in the region of the Middle Rhodopes. As was clear from the responses to the survey, residents of large cities are the main users of rural tourism product, their opinion is very important and should be taken into account in the formation of rural tourism product. Most appeal ability factor for consumers (actual and potential), according to respondents’ presence of the original rural setting “precisely the essential content of rural tourism. Necessary, on the one hand, to keep the originality and authenticity of the region and objects, and another to create and convenience for tourists in terms of easy accessibility, infrastructure, quality of service and more. The aim of the article is to examine consumer interest in rural tourism product in the region of the Middle Rhodopes. So they explored the factors that attract users of rural tourism product in the region.

Technogenesis of Geoecological Systems of Northern Kazakhstan: Progress, Development and Evolution

Author(s): Zharas Galimzhanovich Berdenov,Kulchichan Dzhanaleyeva,Gulnur Mazhitova,Altyn Zhanguzhina,Tursynkul Bazarbayeva,Emin Atasoy / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2017

Експеримент с мобилна станция и дисперсионно моделиране в търсене на отговор на въпроса трафикът ли е източникът на пиковите обгазявания на Стара Загора с азотни оксиди

Author(s): Yanka Stoyanova,Nikolai Takuchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Between 2006 and 2012, the stationary automatic air quality monitoring station in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria repeatedly registered peaks of the nitrogen dioxide concentration over-treshold levels (the highest so far in Bulgaria), with unknown origin. The main suspect was traffic оn the street near the measuring station. The behavior and intensity of air pollution with nitrogen oxides emitted by the motor vehicles crossing a city junction, with three times more intense traffic than that near the stationary station, was investigated. The study included vehicle counting and subsequent dispersion modeling. At the time of counting, total urban nitrogen pollution in the junction area was measured by a mobile station. Within seven years - 2010, 2011 and 2017 were conducted three studies of the junction. It was found that for 7 years in the city‘s car fleet only the number of small passenger cars is decreased (49 times). The maximum concentrations of nitrogen oxides, both measured and calculated, are close in magnitude and are several times smaller than the peak values measured by the stationary station. That is, the analysis of the experiment data showed that the traffic is not the source of the peak pollution with nitrogen dioxide over Stara Zagora. Nitrogen oxides pollution often concentrates around the southwestern corner of city junctions due to the prevailing wind direction from the north-northeast.

Mеждународна астрономическа програма за търсене на астероиди – сътрудничество между учени, студенти и ученици

Author(s): V. Radeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

An International Astronomical Program for the discovery and tracking of asteroids has been developed. The results from the work of students in observational campaigns are discussed. The collaboration between scientists, university students and high school students is outlined. 

The Thracian Religious Complex “Ostrusha” (a reconstruction of the project)

Author(s): Peter Valev / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2005

The Environment and Palaeogeographic Changes in Ancient Thrace (First Millennium BC)

Author(s): Rumyana Georgieva / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2015

The reconstruction of the palaeo-environment of the lands inhabited by the Thracians in this study is based on comparative analysis of currently existing written, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, palynological, archaeological and physico-geographic evidence. It presents the natural conditions, the resources and the registered palaeogeographic changes, while at the same time taking into account the specificity and the importance of the environment for the development of Thracian society and culture during the first millennium BC. Hence the territorial scope of the study comprises mainly the lands to the south of the Danube.

Човешкото въздействие върху съвременния климат – мит или реалност

Author(s): Vladimir Vlaskov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

The wild technological advancement since the mid of the 20th century and he progress in research around the earthen field determined new horizons and priorities in the scientific studies related to climate. In the end of the 20th century start the so called “high-frequency studies of the polar radiance”. Those are the American programs HAARP and HPAAS – Alaska, and LIRPU-Porto Rico; the Russian SURA – Nijniy Novgorod, and the EISAT (Norway, Germany, France, Great Britain, Finland, Japan and China) – nearby Tromsø in Norway. The official purpose of those research programs is the improvement of communications, and satellite observation. But in the last decade in the scientific field it is more and more actively discussed that the priority are actually the developments and experimental activities with the so called “climatic weapon”, realizing direct human influence on the climatic conditions in specific parts of the earth surface.

Planning and Development of Tourism in the Șureanu Massif. Analysis of the Hydrographic Touristic Potential

Planning and Development of Tourism in the Șureanu Massif. Analysis of the Hydrographic Touristic Potential

Author(s): Florina Voicu,George Emanuel Voicu,Ioan Voina / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2020

The planning and tourism development of a geographical area is influenced by the richness of water resources. The hydrographic component has an important role in stimulating and developing tourism activities, imposing itself from this point of view through all forms of water storage, both surface and underground. From this point of view, tourism knows favorable conditions for development, benefiting from an extraordinary complexity and richness of the attractive elements offered by the hydrographic network. Each of them generates through its different effect, specific forms of tourism. The hydrographic network is thus imposed by the landscape and balneotourism impact, the Șureanu mountains constituting a huge natural castle of underground and surface waters.

Тенденции в изменението на състоянието на атмосферния въздух на територията на гр. София за 12-годишен период

Author(s): Bilyana Kostova,Iva Borisova,Vilma Petkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The official data of the Executive Environment Agency (ExEA) for the contents of SO2, NO2, fine air particles, O3, CO and C6H6 in the atmospheric air on the territory of Sofia for a 12-year period (2007 – 2018) are analyzed. The trends in their seasonal and annual changes defining the air quality in the urban environment are outlined.

Цветови модели, използвани при визуална интерпретация на спътниковите данни

Author(s): Georgi Jelev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

This study presents the possibilities for using different colour models for visual interpretation of satellite imagery. Using the RGB model to visualise different spectral bands as a false colour composite image make it possible for different types of objects and features on the Earth surface to be highlighted and easily discerned based on their specific colour. Examples are shown based on satellite imagery from several free sources, e.g. the USGS’s Earth Explorer, the ESA’s Copernicus Open Access Hub, etc.

Алгоритъм за определяне на концентрацията на кислорода в Черно море чрез Арго сонди

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

This paper presents the algorithm for determining the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the Black Sea according to data from Argo probes. A comparison was made between data from two Argo probes released in the Black Sea in 2011 and 2014.

Природни бедствия в България – кризисни събития за периода 2010 – 2018 г.

Author(s): Ralitza Berberova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The paper presents an overview of the occurrence of crisis events from natural processes and phenomena in our country. Official data from the National Statistical Institute covering the period 2010–2018 were researched. The results show that natural disasters are among the most common causes of crises. Over half of the reported crises of a natural origin are the result of floods.

GRAD SENJ U EUROPSKOJ KARTOGRAFIJI 16. I 17. ST.

Author(s): Anna Maria Grüenfelder / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2000

This essay is a contribution to the "Oeco-history" of Senj. This "subaspect of economic and social history researches the natural preconditions of historical events. Landmapes and, in general, illustrations are indispensable and very important sources, as they pretend on geographically preciseness and detailness. Zengg/Senj as an urbane center, situated at the Adriatic-seacoste can be traced on some of the oldest geographical maps dating from the later 16. and the earlier 17. century, represented in the Cartographical collection of the Croatian State Archive. Besides landmapes, important sources are also sketches of the architectonic "stock" (e.g. civil buildings, family-houses, fortresses, walls) and explaining legends, as well as the reports of military engineers on the architectonical status and their proposals for reconstruction. The cited cartographical sources compared with the results of researches in the narrative archivals of the "Kriegsarchiv" (the Court-War-Council's Archiv in Vienna and Graz, als well as the complementary sources of the Slovenian State Archive in Ljubljana) show that it was the crude karst-landscape of Senj as well as its ras climate, which additionally to the vicinty of the (invisible) border-line to the Turkish territories of Bosna blocked the development of traffic, contacts with continental Croatia and the other Inneraustrian provinces. However, Senj which throughout the 16. and the 17. century had to concentrate all its forces on its defension and the protection of its back area, and therefore faced a certain "militarisation", in the sense of subording all other needs to military discipline, did not forfeit its urban image and reputation as an ancient urban center. The autoress faced the need to draw attention on the fact, that the cartographical sources of the historical period in question, which represents the most early cartographical tradition, cannot claim the same high degree of objectiveness as modern cartography. But in comparison to the utmost abstract and symbolic "language" of modern landmapes, these ancient Renaissance-sources offer us a lot of concrete details and, therefor, allow various interpretations. Thus it is indispensable to combine the cartographical researches with archival sources.

Иновативни образователни практики и политики чрез прилагане на геоинформационни системи и технологии

Author(s): Kliment Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Modern global education is characterized by an active transition to the use of new geographic information technologies. The new educational policy orients teachers and university professors towards the introduction of modern teaching methods based on the use of geoinformation and communication technologies. Modern educational technologies provide an opportunity for maximum solution of the problems for the development of education and its individualization. The system for retraining and in-service training of teachers (and teachers in pedagogical universities)also does not sufficiently take into account the vital need to master information technology by working teachers. So far, the processes of self-education predominate in the development of such technologies. Information and communication technologies(ICT) are evolving rapidly on a daily basis. Geographic information technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS) or global positioning systems (GPS) are important parts of ICT. They are used especially in geography education, but are not limited to this. Geographic information technologies provide such new methods and means of information processing that provide high visibility for displaying diverse information and an accessible set of tools for reality analysis. GIS has great potential for information analysis in order to make management decisions in the socio-economic sphere. The publication reveals the problems of higher and secondary education related to modern geoinformation technologies for searching, interpreting and demonstrating various geographical data. Basic guidelines for the development of the implementation of geoinformation technologies in the learning environment are presented.

Археологически и геоложки изследвания за възстановяване на моделите на заселване и обитаване по поречието на р. Хаджийска и южните склонове на Еминска планина, България

Author(s): Zhivko Uzunov,Bilyana Kostova,Boyan Dumanov,Irena Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The main objective of this paper is to present the fieldwork results of archaeological and geological investigations in the area of Hadjiyska river and the southern slopes of Eminska Stara Planina in Bulgaria. The area of interest is home to a large number of archeological findings dating back from the Late Antiquity (4-6th c.) and the Middle Ages (7-18th c.), and fewer from older periods (prehistorical, Thracian and Roman periods). Geological observations show presence of alluvial, prolluvial-delluvial, and prolluvial hollocen sediments. Combining the results of archaeological and geological research allowed for (i) the verification of the hypothesis that older archaeological objects are covered by accumulated sediments, and (ii) an attempt to look into the livelihood in the area.

Użyteczność geowizualizacji wieloelementowych w kontekście semiotyki kartograficznej

Author(s): Izabela Gołębiowska / Language(s): Polish

The work presents study on coordinated and multiple views (CMV) geovisualisation tools, i.e., interactive tools consisting of several views presenting spatial data in various forms, including maps. The study covers both theoretical considerations and eye-tracking empirical study. Among other things, the author aimed to explore how inexperienced users learn and work with CMV geovisualization tools. On this basis, guidelines were formulated for CMV designers and authors of training materials supporting these tools.

LEGAL REGIME OF PROPERTY OF LAND IN ROMAN PROVINCES

Author(s): Stoyan Ivanov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The paper considers the specific problem of the land property outside Italy in the Roman provinces during the period of the late Roman Republic and the early Principate. The author studies how the Roman government faced the new problems that the conquest created and what Rome actually did when first met the Hellenistic concepts of the land property in the conquered territories and how they were applied or modified according to the traditional Roman law principles and regulations. It is emphasized that the need to organize the territory and to define the property of the people who lived on that territory or the rights which they had to the land for a very first time occurred in Sicily which the Romans organized as the first Roman provincia. The article examines the organization of Sicily according to Lex Hieronica, it considers the exemptions and immunities of some cities from the general legal regime of the province, and studies the collection of public revenues and the payments for the taxes for the exploitation of the land – vectigal et vectigalia publica. Key notions and terms like possessio, dominium, mancipatio, vectigal, vectigalia, tributum, stipendium are cleared and special attention is paid to the correct use of the Latin legal terminology. Some of the most important fragments from the Institutes of Gaius about the provincial property are examined and is made a carefully study of his language and the legal aspects of his consideration of the rights that the individuals had over the provincial lands. The research presents in details the organization of other provinces in the late Roman Republic and the early Principate and deals with the richest Roman province – Asia, which brings huge revenues to the Roman budget. Central part of the study is dedicated to the legal regime of the provincial land and the author considers the main opinions on this topic in the recent Roman legal doctrine and translates and analyzes the relevant classical Latin texts in the sources and provides an important bibliography on the problem, he tries also to define the Roman concept for „provincial property“ which for sure was not identical with the dominium ex iure Quiritium in Italy.

Międzynarodowe mechanizmy pomocy krajom dotkniętym katastrofą oraz działania ratownicze zespołów poszukiwawczo-ratowniczych na przykładzie misji polskiej ciężkiej grupy poszukiwawczo-ratowniczej po trzęsieniu ziemi w Turcji

Author(s): Michał Mucha / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

On the 6th of February, 2023, a strong earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey and north Syria. A number of international search and rescue teams went to the affected region. Against the background of these events, the author discusses the most important aspects of the operation of the international civil protection systems, focusing on those directly related to the deployment of rescue teams to the earthquake-affected region. In addition, the key stages of rescue operations carried out by a group from Poland (HUSAR Poland) are discussed, with references to theoretical issues of organising the work of the teams and assisting those who were affected. The article demonstrates the activities of international aid systems and provides statistics of victims extracted by search and rescue teams. It proved their effectiveness in saving lives.