ETHNOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS OF BULGARIA: GENERALFEATURES
Journal Title: Вісник Одеського національного університету. Географічні та геологічні науки - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
Problem Statement and Purpose. Autochthonous and allochthonous EGS significantly differ on urgent development problems and issues that they need to solve for the effective development of such systemic formations. For example, for autochthonous etlmo-geographic formations, the activity of the state is the decisive influence on their functioning: the administrative-territorial structure, the activity of state administration and local self-government bodies, state and regional policy. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the general features of the formation of Bulgarian etlmogeographical systems and to determine the parameters of their spatial configuration. In accordance with this goal set the following tasks - to identify the features of the historical and geographical trajectory of the development of territorial units of Bulgaria of different hierarchical levels and to analyze the impact of these processes on the formation and development of modem EGS. The object of the study is the etlmogeographical systems of Bulgaria. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the formation of the ethnogeographic systems of Bulgaria. Data Methods. The basis of this article is the theoretical and methodological developments of geographers on the issues of territorial organization of vital functions of ethno-national groups, the EU regulations for planning, programming, management, resource support, monitoring and evaluation of regional development in accordance with the general classification of territorial units for the needs of statistics, legal acts on the administrative-territorial structure and the formation of modem communities of Bulgaria. In this paper we will define the peculiarities of the formation of ethnogeographic systems of Bulgaria as a result of historical and geographical development of the territory. Some other general scientific methods of socio-geographical research are also applied - analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, abstraction, formalization. Results. Bulgaria now consists of 28 oblasts (such a status has the capital city of Sofia), which are the administrative-territorial units of the highest level, and 264 communities representing the lower level. It should be noted that the number of communities regularly changed in the second half of the twentieth century. However, modem basic administrative units began to be formed in 1979. when in the ATU of Bulgaria there appeared fundamentally new in essence territorial communities - settlement systems ("settlement systems"). They reflected the contemporary changes in socio¬economic development of countries and regions, urbanization and industrialization, collectivization in agriculture, concentration of service sectors, change of the road network, etc. In fact, more than 10 years before the collapse, a successful attempt was made to form the ATU on the basis of real-life territorial entities. The following levels of the EGS Bulgaria are allocated: settlements (including farms, stations, industrial settlements) - local: territorial communities - public: administrative- territorial areas - micro-regions, statistical regions - macroregional: statistical zones - mesoregional. In Bulgaria, the evolutionary process of the formation of modem EGSs is clearly traced. This circumstance radically distinguishes the situation in this Balkan country from what is happening in Ukraine in the context of administrative-territorial reform. In Bulgaria, the baseline is the communities that are unstable and can change the territorial configuration, depending on. first of all. on socio-economic circumstances. Macro- and meso-regional EGSs have emerged as a response to EU requirements for community members and are still at the formation stage.
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V. I. Todorov
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- EP ID EP508087
- DOI 10.18524/2303-9914.2018.2(33).146638
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