Continuities and Disruptions in Transhumance Practices in the Silesian Beskids (Poland):

Marcol, Katarzyna; Kurcz, Maciej

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“…The settled tribes accepted vocabulary, rituals culture and also the mountain economy shepherding system called hut or summer mountain slopes shepherding. At the beginning of XIIIth century numerous groups of Vlahs settled onto Polish lands mainly on Red Ruthenia, Podolia, Lublin region accepting local culture, but staying involved in shepherding and animal breeding [1,5,6]. Then nomadic groups of Vlachs -shepherds headed west (along the arc of the Carpathians), grazing their ocks of sheep and goats, leading a semi-nomadic lifestyle.…”

Section: Wallachian Culturementioning

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Traditional smoking of wallachian cheeses and could cuts in Polish and Slovak parts of the Carpathian Mountains

Migdał

Marcinčák

Walczycka

et al. 2023

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Wallachian expansion brought to the Carpathian Mountains a system of shepherd economy - farming, production of Wallachian cheeses, animals adapted to life in difficult mountain conditions - mainly sheep of the Cakiel breed group. Mountain sheep's milk is used to produce traditional cheeses: bundz, bryndza podhalańska, oscypek, redykołka - on the Polish side and Slovenská bryndza, Slovenská parenica, Slovenský oštiepok, Ovčí hrudkový syr salašnícky - on the Slovak side. From sheep meat are made sausages. These cheeses and sausages are salted and then traditionally smoked with warm smoke. The source of heat and smoke is hard wood with appropriate humidity, burned in the hearth located in the shepherd's hut, over which the cheeses are placed under the roof. Among several hundred smoke components, there are also polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which, on the one hand, give the smoked product its taste and aroma, and on the other hand have carcinogenic and mutagenic properties. Sausages and cheeses from Poland and Slovakia, made from milk and meat of native sheep breeds, preserved by traditional smoking, were analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons content. The analyzed cheeses were characterized by a trace or low content of benzo[a]pyrene and the sum of benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene and chrysene. In cheeses from outer Eastern Carpathians subprovince (Bieszczady) the high content of naphthalene, acenaphthylene, fluorene and phenanthrene is noteworthy. Polish lamb sausages were characterized by a higher content of benzo(a)pyrene and the sum of benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene and chrysene. The differences result from the method of smoking (warm or cold in the south of the Carpathians - hot in the north) and the type of wood used for smoking.

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Section: Wallachian Culturementioning

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Traditional smoking of wallachian cheeses and could cuts in Polish and Slovak parts of the Carpathian Mountains

Migdał

Marcinčák

Walczycka

et al. 2023

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“…On the basis of literature data and our own obtained data during research in the Silesian Beskids in 2018-2020 [23,24] and in 2021, cultural services were described. The ethnographic research (qualitative research) included unstructured interviews with Beskids' shepherds, members of shepherd families and sheep owners, as well as tourists and participants of cultural and educational events devoted to pastoralism.…”

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The Contribution of Environmental and Cultural Aspects of Pastoralism in the Provision of Ecosystem Services: The Case of the Silesian Beskid Mts (Southern Poland)

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Grazing has proven to be a successful management tool in terms of the maintenance and restoration of biodiversity. Sheep and pastoralism can provide a various set of ecosystem services, i.e., benefits for humans from the environment. The Silesian Beskids, the westernmost part of the Carpathian Mountains, is an area with a long tradition of pastoralism. Since the 13th century, sheep have grazed clearings located in forests and in large areas of grasslands in mountains. In this study, we tried to identify all possible aspects of provisional, regulating and cultural services provided by sheep and the pasturage tradition bearing in mind the specificity of this region. The biodiversity maintenance and habitat creation due to grazing and the cultural values of pastoralism was illustrated using a literature review of data concerning cultural heritage, tourism and education and using our own phytosociological field studies performed in nine vegetation types within grazing sites. In order to examine the impact of grazing, an observation of sheep’s daily grazing activity during the vegetation season using tractive GPS locators was conducted. The results showed that grazing has a positive impact on the maintenance of vegetation including EU-protected habitats. In addition, the pastoral activity introduced to the Beskids by the Vlachs contributed to the development of a specific highlander culture that continues to this day. Not all potential ecosystem services associated with the use of sheep are realized in the study area. Amongst the provisional services, sheep bones are not used while dairy is the most popular followed by meat. In turn, the cultural heritage of pastoralism is one of the most important drivers for the touristic attraction of Silesian Beskid.

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Parallels of environmentally friendly pastoralism to land cover changes and high nature value farmland

Slámová,

Mrázová,

Hudáková

et al. 2024

Landscape Research

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Continuities and Disruptions in Transhumance Practices in the Silesian Beskids (Poland):

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Traditional smoking of wallachian cheeses and could cuts in Polish and Slovak parts of the Carpathian Mountains

Traditional smoking of wallachian cheeses and could cuts in Polish and Slovak parts of the Carpathian Mountains

The Contribution of Environmental and Cultural Aspects of Pastoralism in the Provision of Ecosystem Services: The Case of the Silesian Beskid Mts (Southern Poland)

Parallels of environmentally friendly pastoralism to land cover changes and high nature value farmland

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