Krul' V. Retrospective-geographical Analysis of the Settlements in West Ukraine

The dissertation focuses on the scientific and methodological organization of retrospective geography and its constituents. The concept of the Ukrainian ethnic lands division is defined. The territory natural and historic dynamics is thoroughly examined, the population retrospective genetic analysis is carried out and the peculiarities of the changes in the administrative-territorial system of Western Ukraine are revealed. The attention is focused on a settlement as s determinative for the settling system related to its subject-based character within the populating-inhabiting processes with the retrospective review of settlements development and forming of characteristics of the settling in the region under study. The geographic and temporal peculiarities of the settlements forming within the bounds of Western Ukraine are determined. Based on the retrospective-ekistic analysis, the staging of the forming and existence of the settlements within the administrative division of the region was carried out;spatial- temporal fullness of the region, the retrospective populating energy were investigated. For the settlement-forming processes, the territorial-specific features were revealed and the influence of the primordial settlement forming on the present-day ethnicity of the settlements.