monuments, ossuaries and cemeteries, museums) and are more a case of military landscapes. Some others were built later for public memory (e.g. conflict-related mining and infrastructure). bomb craters and rubble mountains), conflict-related traces associated with military training and weapons testing facilities as well as, potentially, traces of conflict sustenance (e.g. These include defensive structures such as earthworks (embankments), primary and secondary traces of warfare itself (e.g. Some of these traces were created in the time of the war. Wars left many traces, thus we could speak about war landscapes (warscapes ). “Unfortunately” some of these changes are also connected to war. Landscape is a complex combination of landforms and processes that is constantly changing. Many anthropo-geomorphological traces of war are thus preserved only virtually and present intangible war geoheritage. Almost two hundred World War I bomb craters also existed around the village that are also not existent in the topography any more. near the village of Vrtojba (SW Slovenia) where in 1917 over 12 km of World War I trenches existed, but a century later no traces of war are visible in the present-day topography. But much of these geoheritage was also lost in post-war periods, e.g. 72 km 2) in the present-day topography and represent tangible war geoheritage. In the study area on Kras Plateau (SW Slovenia) over one hundred kilometres of World War I trenches are preserved in the NW part of the plateau (app. time series of aerial photographs and high-resolution terrain models (LiDAR digital terrain model) to recognize these landscapes. It requires non-invasive remote-sensing methods, e.g. Today war landscapes are “overlaid” by post-war “layers” of cultural landscapes. In the topography of war landscapes the remains of war are found in the form of trenches, bombing craters and remnants of war infrastructure.
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