ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the administrative needs of imperial regimes resulted in the recording of somewhat different information about land use. It uses information from historical surveys to illustrate some elements of change and continuity in the landscape. The chapter also explains how new patterns of land use emerged over time. Marshy deltaic plains were found near the coast, while an extensive shelf of land rises to more than 200 m from the coastal cliffs on which stands the regional centre of Vostizza, now called by its ancient name of Aighio. The Muslim presence in Vostizza was a legacy of the Ottoman regime. Dipping into the statistical material in the muffasal defters for the Vostizza area and the Catastico Particolare has shown that successive imperial regimes left several legacies in the early eighteenth-century landscape. The Venetian regional map and the village plan locate the settlement above the valley of the Fiume di Vostizza.
