Contribution to the study of regional structure of Littoral Croatia – regionalization of Ravni Kotari area

Abstract

The article examines the Ravni Kotari area (Littoral Croatia) from the viewpoint of regional geography. Introductory part consist of a theoretical debate on region and regionalization, their characteristics and meaning in contemporary geographic research. Using the results of existing regionalization and applying adittional criteria, a physiognomic regionalization of Ravni Kotari has been performed and presented in the central part of the article. Four smaller regional units comprising Ravni Kotari were detected: Ravni Kotari Littoral, Middle Ravni Kotari, (Ražanac-Karin) North Kotari Littoral and Southeast Kotari Littoral. All mentined units were identified with the parts of theoretical region – core, pheripery and transitional zone. Finally, in disccusion, peculiarities of such research are explained.