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The transhumance is motivated by agricultural activities (historically by the mulberry silkworm culture). The main crops in the coastal towns are olive, grape and citrus. For the mountain towns, the crops are summer fruits, mainly apples and pears. Other examples of transhumance exist in Lebanon.
It is a typical organization of pastoral and agricultural Mediterranean communities where transhumance, which is a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures, is still practised. The Lebanese hailing from Kfarsghab number 20,000 worldwide. 95% of them live outside Lebanon, mainly in Australia and the United States. [1]
Transhumance is an ancient Italian custom, by which large flocks of sheep in the mid fall were driven south from the hilly and mountainous regions of the Apennines to winter over in the more southern coastal plains of Apulia and, less commonly, Lazio.
Iceland, Lebanon and Japan are on the list. I thought I’d love them and I did. ... Dubbed “The Camino of the East”, the VT is a tethering of ancient trade and transhumance trails that now ...
Morh Kfarsghab ( known also as Morh Kfar Sghab, Murh Kafarsghab or Mrah Kfarseghab; Arabic: مرح كفرصغاب, pronounced [ˈmurħ kafarsˤiˈɣaːb] ⓘ) is a village located in the Zgharta District in the North Governorate of Lebanon.
Nomadic pastoralism also known as Nomadic herding, is a form of pastoralism in which livestock are herded in order to seek for fresh pastures on which to graze.True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. [1]
A catt of the Bakhtiari people, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Global map of pastoralism, its origins and historical development [1]. Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. [2]
The "Banu Marin" (Marinids) were a semi-nomadic Zenata Berber tribe from the Zab region, who in the 12th century were practising transhumance in the region between Figuig and the Moulouya River in what is now eastern Morocco. [9] [10] Unlike many Zenata tribes in the region, they did not join the Almohads as they conquered the Maghrib. [10]