vlach right, transhuman animal keeping

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vlach right

The juristic institution regulating the transhuman life style and farming of Balcan and other East European peoples. Its main characteristic was the way of taxation, called the sheep fiftieth. The name vlach in this context does not refer to a people, it was just a right, which could also be used by the Rumanian, Macedo-Rumanian, Serbian, Ruthenian and other people.

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transhuman animal keeping

A pastoral life style with two grazing-grounds. The animal keeping of those people who had already settled down. The summer mountain-region grazing-ground varies with the winter plain grazing-ground. It was known along the Mediterranean Sea, in some regions of the Alps and in the Carpathians, from Transylvania to the Small Carpathians.

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