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Prekodravlje - Repaš: Development of the Settlement and Population

Prekodravlje is an area that has a long history of human habitation, but the current settlements are relatively young - as most of them emerged as the result of development in the early 19th century. Anm analysis of population trends, natural growth and the migration balance has shown that Prekodravlje had the features of an immigration region only until the end of the 19th century, when intense growth in the number of inhabitants was conditioned by the high number of immigrants in relation to emigrants and high natural growth. In the entire subsequent one-hundred year period, i.e. already after 1910, Pekodravlje become a region marked by depopulation, and since 1971 its population has begun dying off. Due to its position on a national border and its earlier relative transit isolation, this area saw little investment, so jobs outside of agriculture were not created here. A portion of a labour force therefore moved away. The consequence has been a decline in the population and aging of that same population. In recent years, the character of its position on the border has changed, and the transport and communication infrastructure has improved. The latter may even be reinforced with the introduction telecomunication links. The condition have been created for the accelerated development of the secondary and tertiary sectors, which are technologically more complex and thus require a qualified labor force. So, a higher general level of education and the corresponding school structure have been prerequisites for faster economic development and the halting of negative demographic trends.

Prekodravlje; national border; population; depopulation; aging

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