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boundaries of the built-up areas. The acquired results, the extent of the
built-up areas, were compared with the census data on population deve-
lopment from similar periods.
The third chapter anthropologically and geographically studies the
path that runs along the former route of the Trieste–Poreč narrow-ga-
uge railroad, which is widely known as Parenzana or Route of Health and
Friendship. The author provides an overview of the railroad history and
presents various suggestions that have gradually transformed it into
a recreational hiking and biking route that stretches through Italian,
Slovene and Croat territories. The author explains the initial excitement
of certain individuals who wanted to create a path, the establishment of
the Parenzana Museum, as well as various approaches of local tourist as-
sociations. In its conclusion, the chapter lists the ideas of various thema-
tic paths linked to Parenzana. They were prepared by the author and her
students with the purpose of revitalisation in order to present the path
with refreshed content to potential visitors.
The focal point of the fourth chapter is the land use changes in the
rural settlements of Dvori, Movraž and Rakitovec in the municipality
of Koper. The authors made a bicentennial comparison of the land use
changes in the aforementioned settlements. They used the data from
the Franciscean Cadaster – which was created for the Primorska region
between 1811 and 1869 – and the data of the land use from 2022 by the
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. According to the previously
established methods they merged specific land uses into categories that
enabled further comparisons. They used semi-structured interviews with
selected residents of the studied settlements to support the comparisons.
The comparison results showed that land use changed drastically in all
three settlements. The areas were mostly overgrown with grass and shru-
bs, as well as vineyards in Dvori and Movraž, in the early 18th century.
The data of current land use shows that the predominant current cate-
gory is forest that has overgrown the majority of pastures and meadows,
whereas the grasslands are now in the areas of former fields.
In the fifth chapter, the authors focused on the rural outskirts of the
municipality of Koper again; namely, they studied development oppor-
tunities in the settlements of Podpeč, Rakitovec and Zazid. Similarly to
other rural settlements in the Slovene Istria and elsewhere in Slovenia,
these settlements face the processes of the aging population, daily mi-
grations of the working population to the nearby towns, and relatively

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