“Expandable crescent” in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county

Abstract

This article is not a research paper. To illustrate the otherwise well-known situation, in the northern belt of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, along the national border from the southern border of Ózd district, from Borsodnádasd to Hegyköz, to the border of Sátoraljaújhely (20-25 km) is a small village area in a traffic-depleted, rapidly declining area, sometimes affected by "escape" migration. This hilly landscape covers an area of 2650-2700 km2 (area of Komárom is 2264 km2 and Nógrád is 2544 km2 ), it has 170-172 settlements, in 2017 there were 126 thousand inhabitants. The population density is 47.3 persons / km2. The disadvantage of the zone is not current - it can be traced back to processes that have been recognizable centuries earlier - but it still requires "management" to produce ever-changing problems. As the mix of "problems" changes from time to time, their "treatment" also requires new solutions, all of this requires constant examination of the area, taking into account possible “new and new solutions”. This introductory article addresses these problems and their possible "treatment". Emphasizing that
exploring the deeper causes of these problems and understanding the processes is still a task ahead of us.