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Changing Physical Environment and Settlement in the Hungarian
Drava Plain in the 18-20th Century
Péter Gyenizse, Institute of Geography,
Dénes Lóczy, Ervin Pirkhoffer, Institute of Environmental Sciences
University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6.
E-mail: [email protected]
Since the 13th century: between the Almás and Okor steams and the Drava river Origin of the name: Finno-ugric ormo = emerging ridge or Turkish orman = forest
Ormánság
Geomorphological districts
Drava floodplain
Ormánság mounds
Fekete-víz and Pécsi-vízalluvial fan
Pécs Basin
Landscape history
• latest colonization in South-Transdanubia• more than 1000 km2 inundated during Drava floods • swamps: protection during the Mongolian Invasion and Turkish Occupation
Gyöngyös stream
Almás stream Okor stream
Pécsi stream
Changing landscape
Changes in the Fekete-víz drainage basin (after Erdősi, F. 1977)1 = stagnant water at the beginning of the 19th century; 2 = water-mills; 3 = stream channel at the beginning of the 19th century; 4 = braided channel across marsh at the beginning of the 19th century; 5 = artificial channel reach formed since the middle of the 19th century; 6 = former reach abandoned during artificial diversion Promjene u sljevnom području Fekete-víza (prema Erdősi, 1977)1 = stagnirajuća voda na početku 19. stoljeća; 2 = vodenice; 3 = korita na početku 19. stoljeća; 4 = prepletena korita u močvarnom području na početku 19. stoljeća; 5 = umjetni kanal izgrađen od sredine 19. stoljeća, 6 = napušteni dio kanala nakon umjetnog skretanja
Functions by altitudinal zonesBogdása church
floodplain
forest
• below 95 m: permanent waterlogging – fishing• ca 95-97 m: seasonal waterlogging – gathering • ca 97-100 m: forest – stock breeding, foddering
• above ca 100 m: arable farming, settlements
Vertikalne zone korištenja zemljišta Ormánság-a
Settlement density in the Árpád Age (until the 14th
century) (by Péter Gyenizse)
Settlement density in 1783-84 (by Péter Gyenizse)
Settlement density in the 20th century (by Péter
Gyenizse)
Nagycsány viewed from church hill
Microtopography, drainage and settlement
Planform changes in Sellye, 1784-1991 (by Péter Gyenizse)
1784 1856-60 1880 1950 1967 1991
97,1-98m 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
98,1-99m 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.4% 0.7%
99,1-100m 0.9% 1.6% 3.4% 11.4% 12.7% 31.6%
100,1-101m 3.4% 19.6% 18.8% 15.0% 14.6% 17.2%
101,1-102m 23.3% 23.3% 28.0% 29.1% 28.2% 17.9%
102,1-103m 35.5% 25.5% 23.0% 21.6% 21.3% 17.2%
103,1-104m 22.2% 18.6% 17.3% 13.1% 13.1% 8.7%
104,1-105m 5.3% 5.0% 4.2% 4.1% 4.5% 3.6%
105,1-106m 3.8% 2.2% 2.2% 2.4% 2.4% 1.7%
106,1-107m 1.6% 0.9% 1.0% 1.2% 1.2% 0.6%
107,1-108m 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3%
108,1-109m 2.4% 1.4% 1.2% 0.8% 0.8% 0.4%
109,1-110m 0.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
110,1-111m 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
Topografija okolice Sellye i promjene u izgrađenom području
Population changes in South-Transdanubian settlements, 1784-1870 (1784 = 100%) (by Péter Gyenizse)
Pécs
Sellye
Szigetvár Szentlőrinc
SiklósHarkány
Pécs
Sellye
Szigetvár Szentlőrinc
SiklósHarkány
Population changes in South-Transdanubian settlements, 1870-1941 (1870 = 100%) (by Péter Gyenizse)
Shrinking forests, 1784-1880
(by Péter Gyenizse, from maps of Miltary Surveys)
Population changes in South-Transdanubian settlements, 1941-1990 (1941 = 100%) (by Péter Gyenizse)
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