CULTURAL-GEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DINARIC KARST REGION OF CROATIA

U radu se iznosi pregled nekih znanstvenih spoznaja o kulturnogeografskim obilježjima dinarskoga dijela Hrvatske u urbanizmu, arhitekturi urbanih i ruralnih kuća, seoskim običajima i tradicijskoj kulturi, jezičnim, glazbenim, gastronomskim i drugim sociokulturnim pojavnim oblicima. Budući da je to područje utjecaja triju kulturno-civilizacijskih krugova, polazi se od pretpostavke da su ti utjecaji rezultirali brojnim sličnostima u prostornim sociokulturnim oblicima u dinarskom prostoru s onima vanjskima, na primjer s talijanskima u priobalnoj zoni. U sociokulturnome smislu, to je heterogen prostor na kojem se mogu izdvojiti i opisati dva kulturna areala – jadranski (koji obuhvaća uski obalni pojas uz Jadransko more) i dinarski (koji se nastavlja u zaleđu jadranskoga) – svaki sa svojim specifičnim sociokulturnim obilježjima. Ta su obilježja u prostoru vidljiva ili nevidljiva, a mogu se iščitati iz različitih tipova kulturnih pejzaža koje oblikuju. Na temelju nekih obilježja napravljene su regionalizacije dinarskog prostora. To je ujedno i prostor iznimnih prirodnih i kulturnih vrijednosti proizašlih iz dominantne krške podloge, koji je dosad istaknut i djelomično valoriziran kroz različite oblike zaštite pa se u radu naglašava i njegova kulturna prepoznatljivost koja ga izdvaja u hrvatskim i svjetskim okvirima.This paper gives an overview of several new scientific findings on the cultural-geographic characteristics of the Dinaric region of Croatia in the sense of urbanism, architecture of urban and rural houses, rural customs and traditional culture, language, music, cuisine and other socio- cultural forms that appear. Considering that this region is under the influence of three different cultural and civilisation circles, it can be assumed that these influences have resulted in numerous similarities in the spatial socio-cultural forms in the Dinaric region with those outside the region, such as the Italian forms in the coastal zone. In the socio-cultural sense, this is a heterogeneous area in which two cultural ranges can be isolated and described – the Adriatic (which includes the narrow coastal belt along the Adriatic Sea) and the Dinaric (which continues inland of the Adriatic belt) – each with their own specific socio-culturological characteristics. These characteristics in space are either visible or invisible, and they can be interpreted in the various types of cultural landscapes they form. Based on certain characteristics, the Dinaric area was regionalised. This is also an area of exceptional natural and cultural values ensuing from the dominant karst terrain, which has remained intact and only partly evaluated through different forms of protection, and this paper emphasizes its cultural recognisability that sets it apart at both the Croatian and global scales