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<p>Prekmurje<br />Prekmurje is a small piece of Slovenian land squeezed between three borders – Austrian, Hungarian, and Croatian, and the Mura River – the latter gave the name to this land as Prekmurje roughly translated means across the Mura. Until the end of WW1 it was part of Hungary, but with the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its disintegration it became part of Slovenia. At that time this was extremely poor and underdeveloped rural place, full of swamps, with the majority of cultivable land belonging to the Hungarian count family Zichy. After the WW2 the last countess of this family has fled to Austria and the land partly belonged to the state and partly it was divided among the peasants, the swamps were dried and turned into the fields or grassland, and quite a few industries built or moved their plants there, but it was not before the last quarter of the past century that any substantial progress was visible. My father, a Slovenian writer, was born there in 1908, and this land and its people were the subject of the majority of his novels. When I was starting my photojournalist's career in late 70s, the “old” Prekmurje, the one my father wrote about, was rapidly disappearing – old people were dying, small, clay plastered cottages with the thatched roofs were giving place to the modern brick and concrete houses, and tractors were fast replacing the cows used for drawing carts and plows. I wanted to record as much as possible of that old Prekmurje, while it still lasted , and the photographs in this album are small part of my effort. They were taken mostly between 1973 and 1980, when the changeover was almost complete and except for the few isolated cottages the old Prekmurje was practically gone.<br />Besuchen Sie das Album: <a href="http://misko.jalbum.net/Prekmurje/">http://misko.jalbum.net/Prekmurje/</a></p>