With its three or four churches it belongs to the most remarkable settlements of its kind dating from the late ancient period.
VINCENC RAJSP, "THE JULIAN ALPS ON OLD MAPS OF THE 16TH TO 19TH CENTURIES"
The first cartographical presentations of Slovenian territories are, at the same time, the first ones of their alpine regions. The region known today under the name of the “Julian Alps” appeared for the first time in the cosmography of Sebastian Münster of the year 1542 and was re-produced several times in the following decades. From the 17th and early 18th century, the increasingly accurate maps of the native authors Johann Weichard Valvasor and Disma Floriantschitsch deserve mention. The map-making of the Slovenian Alps took on a new quality in the 18th and early 19th centuries in the course of the military topographies. By these records the high mountain areas were genuinely received into the world of the accessible and the measurable. The surveyors now got as far as the alpine huts and even recorded paths that led the way over the high pastures.
DARJA MIHELIC, "ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE SLOVENIAN ALPS"
Based on the standard work on the economic and social history of the Slovenes, obtainable, too, in a shortened German version, this contribution provides a survey of the economic and, especially, the agricultural development of the alpine region from the Middle Ages up until the 19th and 20th centuries.
The presentations concern hunting and fishing, animal husbandry (rearing of domestic animals,poultry,bee-keeping),plant cultivation (arable, fruit, wine, hops, planting of mulberry trees, gardening), forestry, handicrafts and industry (from the ancient iron- and glass-industries up to modern energy production). The authoress documents the development of these varying economic activities and points out their connections with environmental constraints, changes in social structure, settlement and population development, available techniques and relevant conditions of transport and markets.
