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KUTATÁSI BESZÁMOLÓK - BORSOS BALÁZS: A kulturális ökológia és magyarországi lehetőségei

data, it becomes obvious that even the increased arable land was incapable of providing for the population, and many people amigrated from the country. These emigrations had social basis: the reclaimed lands were turned into large estates. In addition to old ethnographic collections, an analysis of maps from the period uncovers how traditional farming adapted to the natural environment. On the maps of the military survey from the 1850s and of the consolidation of land-stripes from the 1860s, it is easy to perceive signs of the so-called "belted" farming in the areas of lofty ridges of sand-hills in the South of Bodrogköz; from below towards the top, the order of the "belts" was the following: marsh-pasture, reeds, grass-land, plough-land. In the more hilly Northern parts of Bodrogköz this structure is not palpable; river control here brought fewer changes in farming. 114