Dispersed settlement in Southern Italy

Abstract: In individual farms (case sparse) live about one fifth of the total and one third of the rural population of southern Italy. The settlement types are: the closed village; smaller centers and hamlets ( casali, frazioni); masserie - old farms of the large estates, usually over 50 ha; podere - more or less independent family farms with varying size depending on the type of economy (under 1 ha for citrus cultivation, up to about 15 ha for wheat fallow cultivation); the hut in the vineyard, olive grove and on the pasture as shelter or for summer use. These settlement units were redrawn from sheets at the scale of 1 : 25 000 and 1 : 50 000 to those at the scale of 1 : 100 000, and the following relationships were recognized (with substantial modification of Biasutti's map) (Fig. 3). Concentration types with low dispersion: 1) large centers and large masseries; 2) large centers, small masseries, some scattered temporary buildings; 3) large centers with medium-sized masseries and small far.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1183

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Dispersed settlement in Southern Italy ; volume:10 ; number:4 ; year:1956 ; Erdkunde ; 10, Heft 4 (1956)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Dickinson, Robert E.

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1956.04.03
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291235440.236994370999
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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