DRUŠTVENOGEOGRAFSKE PROMJENE U KUPREŠKOM KRAJU POSLIJE DRUGOG SVJETSKOG RATA (1945-1991)
SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE REGION OF KUPRES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1945. - 1991.)
Novak Zubić
DOI: 10.35666/23038950.1991.35.31
UDK: 908(497.15-35 Kupres)„1945/1991“
SUMMARY: SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE REGION OF KUPRES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1945. - 1991.). The region of Kupres covers high karst fields of Blagaj, Kupres, Vukovsko and Ravno in the South-Western Bosnia. In the pre-war times (1941.) there were cca 20.500 inhabitants in this region and in 1981. only 10,098, which is 50,7% less than in 1941. This is due prirnarily to war devastation and post-war ermgration owing to economic reasons. In the pre-war times and immediately after the war agriculture was the predominant ucupattion of the population,
sheep and cattle breeding in particular.
In the post-war years, bessides agriculture, other economic activties, like industry,trade, mountain tourism etc have started, due to whic the percent of agricultural population has fallen from 89% to 46%.
GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW - SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL FOR GEOGRAPHY No 35, Year 1991. pg. 31-37