WATERS AND ORES AS DECIDING FACTORS FOR UPSPRING AND ECONOMIC RISE OF THE URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN SLOVENIA IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL ERA Cover Image

VODE IN RUDE KOT ODLOČILNI DEJAVNIKI ZA NASTANEK IN GOSPODARSKI VZPON MEŠČANSKIH NASELIJ NA SLOVENSKEM V PREDINDUSTRIJSKI DOBI
WATERS AND ORES AS DECIDING FACTORS FOR UPSPRING AND ECONOMIC RISE OF THE URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN SLOVENIA IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL ERA

Author(s): Boris Golec
Subject(s): Economic history, Social history, Human Ecology, Rural and urban sociology, Environmental interactions, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Društvo za hrvatsku ekonomsku povijest i ekohistoriju - Izdavačka kuća Meridijani
Keywords: Waters; ores; towns; market towns; today´s Slovenia;

Summary/Abstract: The creation and economic rise of certain civil settlements in Slovenia in the pre-industrial era is inextricably related to the exploitation of water resources and mineral wealth. Two villages became marketplaces thanks to water resources: in the 16th century, Vrhnika mostly because of Ljubljanica river navigation and river traffic; at the turn of the 17th and 18th century Dolenjske Toplice acquired the position of a marketplace, soon to lose it. River transport on Sava in the 18th and early 19th century significantly changed the economic and social profile of the medieval market called Litija; after it ceased due to the railway, a reversal occurred again. However, the exploitation of mineral wealth had even greater impact on formation of urban settlements than river transport. At the end of the Middle Ages, there was a marketplace Bela Peč (now in Italy), the only mining settlement that managed to acquire all the attributes of a marketplace with a developed autonomy. The place Idrija is certainly the biggest phenomenon of them all, with its mercury mining. Getting its marketplace status in late 17th century, Idrija was referred to as a mining town from mid-18th century onwards, and later a city (the second biggest one in Carniola); although on an overall level it lacked institutions of a city administration.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 199-205
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovenian
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