Transhumance
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Transhumance is a type of mobile pastoralism in which grazing livestock are moved in herds seasonally between several fixed pastures, in contrast to sedentary pastoralism, where the livestock remain a
Transhumance in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Moving sheep up along a drovers' road in the Massif Central, France
Romanian and Vlach transhumance in Balkans
Vlach shepherd in Banat
Sarakatsani
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The Sarakatsani, also called Karakachani, are an ethnic Greek population subgroup who were traditionally transhumant shepherds, native to Greece, with a smaller presence in neighbouring Bulgaria, sout
Transhumance
…conversant with subsistence agriculture, pastoralism as well as forestry and frozen water and fast stream management. In the Balkans, Albanians, Greek Sarakatsani, Eastern Romance (Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians) and Turkish Yörük peoples traditionally spent summer months in the…
Sarakatsani children in Kotel, Bulgaria
Sarakatsani men in West Macedonia, Greece, in 1935
A reconstructed Sarakatsani hamlet in Skamneli village, in Epirus, Greece
The seat of the federation of Bulgaria's Sarakatsani in Sliven