ZAGORJE
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Ethno-zone Zagore includes villages and hamlets Zagore, Stepča, Franeli, Krsonjini and Ivaniši with their surroundings, and it is a part of a wider identical area characterized mostly by cattle-breeding and agricultural cultures.
The cattle-breeding and agricultural traditional features are characteristic of the mentioned area, and they are emphasised in the bounds made of drystone walls of a small and irregular ground plan which dominate the landscape, and in the structure and architectural features of the settlement.
The settlements were situated inside the zone of the karst pasture lands, which were later divided into upper and lower section, due to the road construction. Most of the buildings in the settlement are the outhouses made of stone, covered with vegetable covering, and the rest are residential structures with a larder - "konoba" of a rectangular ground plan, with a gable roof covered with half-round tiles.
According to the landscape patterns, location and organization of the settlements, and according to the architectural characteristics and the densitiy of the typical finds, the ethnographical zone of Zagorje represents a typical example, and, taking into consideration its location near the main road, it is also a representative example of the traditionalistic organization of space. In relation to the cultural-historical ancestry, the same represents a part of a Liburnian cattle-breeding area with a Slavic type of settling in hamlets, which in the more restricted cultural-historical area from Kantrida to Plomin, manifests itself in the densitiy of pasture lands of the type of ethno-zone of Zagorje.
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