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Dinaric Karst – An Example of Deforestation and Desertification of Limestone Terrain
Fig. 16. The first black pine plantations along the railway towards Trieste (Goll, 1898).
Fig. 17. Managing of black pine plantation above the Trieste in 1905 (Anonym, 2001).
Different activities were taking place in other parts of the Dinaric Karst too, the difference
being due to local political and administrative particularities. There are also differences in
the accessibility of documents and of publications. For some regions, in the frame of Austria
for example, there is quite a lot of published works, technical documentation even, while for
the parts which were in the frame of the Ottoman Empire, documentation is maybe more
scarce and in any case more difficult to find and more difficult to understand, if written in
Turkish language and in Arabic script. Under Hungarian administration Croatia was
divided into Military Zone or Military Croatia (along the border with Turkish Empire) and
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