Paládi-Kovács Attila: A Barkóság és népe (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 15. Miskolc, 1982)

ification within the region, certain factors of the cultural zones which are in the transitional areas, the highlands as a marginal area and the Plain region as an innovative areas which is a central ethnic zone, and the relationship between the two. Finally he sets up ten points to sum up the characteristics which give the Barkó ethnic group its individual character (the contrast between the hilly region and its surroundings, the continuity of the Hungarian population, the high ratio of nobility as a population element, endogene trends within the Barkó group, the Roman Catholic religion, the uniform folk language (dialect), the awareness of identity of the Barkó ethnic group, the ethnonym Barkó and the existence of the geographical name Barkóság, the operation of the internal communication of the region, the unity of progress in the industrial era). MAPS Map 1. The area known as the Barkó region in ethnographic literature prior to 1910. Map 2. The area known to the people as the Barkó region. Map 3. The more important religious denominations in the mid-19th Century A = Protestant village, B = Roman Catholic village, C = roughly equal numbers of Protestant and Roman Catholics, D = Catholic majority Protestant minority. Map 4. Villages of nobility and serfs in the mid-19th Century A = serf village B = village of the lesser nobility. Map. 5. The size of the forests at the end of the 19th Century. 197