GEOGRAFSKE PERSPEKTIVE BRDSKO-PLANINSKE POGRANIČNE ZONE SRBIJE PREMA BUGARSKOJ
GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLOOK OF HILLY-MOUNTAINOUS BORDER REGION FROM SERBIA
TO BULGARIA ONWARDS
Kosovka Ristić
DOI: 10.35666/23038950.1991.35.61
UDK: 911.9:711:314(497.11-35)
SUMMARY: GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLOOK OF HILLY-MOUNTAINOUS BORDER REGION FROM SERBIA TO BULGARIA ONWARDS. The border region covering the surface from Serbia to Bulgaria onwards,
consists mostly of low mountains, Stara planina, higly-located river valleys and Negotina region northward. In spite of such relief, it used to be densely populated region. After the World War II, it hadn't been an attractive place for the young to live in any longer, so they started to move collectively. Gradually but permanently, the traditional economic field the cattle breeding - disappeared. The present situation shows: almost deserted villages in the hilly-mountainous region, unused pastures and meadows, the cities situated in the mountainous piedmont areas inhabited by peasant inhabitants. Mostly those people work as unqualified manpower in industrial sections of average capacities.
From the point of viewof normal economic development, the border region toward Bulgaria hasn't great perspective for geographical prosperity. The traditional economy hardly exists, and the new one hasn't been developed enough.
GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW - SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL FOR GEOGRAPHY No 35, Year 1991. pg. 61-65