GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS EFFECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY KARDZHALI IN SOUTH-EASTERN BULGARIA

Abstract

When analyzing the city with a geographical method, its relationship with thenatural and the geographical environment should be investigated and specified.Such geographical conditions as geographical position, site and environs of a cityare factors highly helpful to understand, explain and describe the facts on itsfoundation, historical development and present condition. It would not be wrong toconsider these factors as fundamental elements of a city (Tanoğlu, 1944).It is impossible to overlook the effects of geographical factors on development of aregion. Land formations, climatic and soil characteristics and water resources areinfluential in the emergence and sustainability of economic activities primarily likeagriculture and tourism. The better such natural characteristics as position, landformations, climate, water resources and such human characteristics as structure ofthe population and developmental aims and objectives are described and analyzed,the more successful the region's development goals will be (Akova Balcı, 2008).