GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLOOK OF HILLY-MOUNTAINOUS BORDER REGION FROM SERBIA TO BULGARIA ONWARDS

The border region covering the surface from Serbia to Bulgaria onwards, consists mostly of low mountains, Stara planina, higly-located river valleys and Negotina region northward. In spite of such relief, it used to be densely populated region. After the World War II, it hadn't been an attractive place for the young to live in any longer, so they started to move collectively. Gradually but permanently, the traditional economic field the cattle breeding - disappeared. The present situation shows: almost deserted villages in the hilly-mountainous region, unused pastures and meadows, the cities situated in the mountainous piedmont areas inhabited by peasant inhabitants. Mostly those people work as unqualified manpower in industrial sections of average capacities. From the point of view of normal economic development, the border region toward Bulgaria hasn't great perspective for geographical prosperity. The traditional economy hardly exists, and the new one hasn't been developed enough.