Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (vertical...
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Alpine transhumance is transhumance as practiced in the Alps, that is, a seasonal droving of grazing livestock between the valleys in winter and the high...
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In the crop growing season, transhumance is practised on a broad scale in the northern Ethiopian highlands, as farmland and its stubble can no longer be...
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Mesta (section Transhumance before the Mesta)
outgrowing the available local grazing and encouraging transhumance to more distant pastures. This transhumance was a frequent cause of dispute between the shepherds...
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Nomadic pastoralism (category Transhumance)
True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. However, this distinction is often...
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: 552 It was traditionally used to protect flocks during the annual transhumance to high summer pasture in the Pyrenees.: 552 It is a distinct and separate...
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Organization. Retrieved 24 October 2021. "The Transhumance". Ariege.com. Retrieved 2016-02-01. "The traditional transhumance of pyrenean horses". Archived from the...
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and yaks. This nomadic tradition continues to function seasonally (see transhumance) as herding families return to the high mountain pasture (or jailoo)...
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Transhumance ways of the Romance-speaking Vlach shepherds in the past...
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crop-growers, but of great importance to herdsmen practising seasonal transhumance. Thus, he suggests that the festival has pastoral origins. The earliest...
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