Marginalization of moravian-slovakian borderland.

After the split-up of Czechoslovakia, a new state border came into existence between Czech and Slovak republics. Regions, initially interior, became border ones. Creation of new state border and transition to the to the market economy multiplied by physico-geographical characteristic of the territory leads up to the rapid marginalization of this „new“ borderland. The paper deals with marginalization of the Bílé Karpaty region, namely with case studies of Bojkovice, Horní Lideč, Slavičín, Brumov and Valašské Klobouky micro-regions