AAB/V1: Petrografická analýza kamenárskych artefaktov rímskeho kastela v Iži pri Komárne (lokalita Leányvár) / Chrastina Peter. – Nitra [b. v.], 2003. – 76 s. - ISBN 80-8050-641-8

AAB/V1: Vývoj využívania krajiny Trenčianskej kotliny a jej horskej obruby / Chrastina Peter. - Nitra : UKF, 2009. - 285 s. - ISBN 978-80-8094-450-6

ADN/V3: Poznámky ku konceptualizácii v environmentálnych dejinách na Slovensku = Notes on Conceptualisation of Environmental History in Slovakia / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 50%] ; Hronček, Pavel [Autor, 50%]. – DOI 10.17846/SHN.2018.22.2.408-433. – SCOPUS. In: Studia Historica Nitriensia [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – ISSN 1338-7219. – ISSN (online) 2585-8661. – Roč. 22, č. 2 (2018), s. 408-433[tlačená forma] [online]

ADN/V3: Nerudné suroviny Nitrianskej stolice pohľadom Mateja Bela = Non-ferrous raw materials of the Nitra County by Matthias Bel's view / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 100%]. – DOI 10.17846/SHN.2019.23.1.29-42. – SCOPUS. In: Studia Historica Nitriensia [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – ISSN 1338-7219. – ISSN (online) 2585-8661. – Roč. 23, č. 1 (2019), s. 29-42 [tlačená forma] [online]

AAB/V1:  Príbehy krajín minulosti [textový dokument (print)] [monografia] / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 100%] ; Hronček, Pavel [Recenzent] ; Michaeli, Eva [Recenzent] ; Semotanová, Eva [Recenzent]. – 1. vyd. – Trnava (Slovensko) : Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave. Filozofická fakulta, 2023. – 151 s. [tlačená forma]. – ISBN 978-80-572-0336-0

ADM/V3: Land-use changes of historical rural landscape - heritage, protection, and sustainable ecotourism: Case study of Slovak exclave Čív (Piliscsév) in Komárom-Esztergom County (Hungary) / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 40%] ; Hronček, Pavel [Autor, 25%] ; Gregorová, Bohuslava [Autor, 25%] ; Žoncová, Michaela [Autor, 10%]. – DOI 10.3390/su12156048. – WOS CC ; SCOPUS ; CCC. In: Sustainability [elektronický dokument] . – ISSN (online) 2071-1050. – Roč. 12, č. 15 (2020), s. [1-25] [online]

ADN/V3:  Matej Bel o obyčajných podzemných vodách Nitrianskej stolice = Matthias Bel about the ordinary groundwaters in the Nitra county / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 100%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.17846/SHN.2023.27.S.203-212. – SCO In: Studia Historica Nitriensia [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Nitra (Slovensko) : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre. – ISSN 1338-7219. – ISSN (online) 2585-8661. – Roč. 27, č. Supplementum 3 (2023), s. 203-212 [tlačená forma] [online]

ADM/V3: 3D Visualisation of a Section of the Imperial-Royal Postal Road in the Landscape of the Dudváh Wetland in Western Slovakia = Wizualizacja 3D odcinka cesarsko-królewskiej drogi pocztowej w krajobrazie mokradeł rzeki Dudváh na Słowacji Zachodniej / Bönde Gogova, Stanislava [Autor, 34%] ; Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 33%] ; Bešina, Daniel [Autor, 33%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.48234/WK723D. – SCO. In: Wiadomosci Konserwatorskie [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Krakow (Poľsko) : Zarzad Glowny Stowarzyszenia Konserwatorow Zabytkow. – ISSN 0860-2395. – ISSN (online) 2544-8870. – č. 72 (2022), s. 80-88

ADN/V3: Počiatky modernizácie cestnej siete v Uhorsku na príklade cesty Trakovice - Leopoldov = The Beginnings of the Hungarian Road Network Modernization on the Example of the Construction of the Trakovice - Leopoldov / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 50%] ; Ďurčo, Michal [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.17846/SHN.2022.26.2.330-356. In: Studia Historica Nitriensia [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Nitra (Slovensko) : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre. – ISSN 1338-7219. – ISSN (online) 2585-8661. – Roč. 26, č. 2 (2022), s. 330-356 [tlačená forma] [online]

ACB/P1: Príroda a krajina Nitrianskej stolice v prvej polovici 18. storočia [textový dokument (print)] [učebnica pre vysoké školy] : podľa Vedomostí M. Bela a vybraných autorov obdobia baroka / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 92%] ; Součková, Taťána [Autor, 50%] ; Semotanová, Eva [Recenzent] ; Hronček, Pavel [Recenzent]. – 2. dopl. vyd. – Trnava (Slovensko) : Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave. Filozofická fakulta, 2022. – 137 s. [tlačená forma]. – ISBN 978-80-572-0263-9

ADC: Land-use changes of historical rural landscape - heritage, protection, and sustainable ecotourism: Case study of Slovak exclave Čív (Piliscsév) in Komárom-Esztergom County (Hungary) / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 40%] ; Hronček, Pavel [Autor, 25%] ; Gregorová, Bohuslava [Autor, 25%] ; Žoncová, Michaela [Autor, 10%]. – DOI 10.3390/su12156048. – WOS CC ; SCOPUS ; CCC. In: Sustainability [elektronický dokument] . – ISSN (online) 2071-1050. – Roč. 12, č. 15 (2020), s. [1-25] [online]

CITATIONS:

Putri, Sukmasari Triana Gita, and Ni Putu Ayu Tika Kurniawati. "Penerapan Ekowisata Di Taman Nasional Bali Barat." Realitas Kemasyarakatan: 67.

LAKSMI, Putu Ayu Sita, I. Wayan Juliantara JULIANTARA, Ni Putu sinria FRANZA, and G. Oka Baskara JW. "Sustainable Tourism Management at EcoMangrove Ulam Sari Kedonganan." Community Services: Sustainability Development 1, no. 2 (2024): 61-65.

Bryja, Marek. "HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SLOVAK ASSOCIATION IN POLAND." European Journal of Social Sciences Studies 11, no. 2 (2025).

Хашимова, М. М. (2023). Планирование экотуризма на основе определениякритериев потенциала развития эко туристическойзоны. Региональная экономика и управление: электронный научный журнал, (3 (75)), 14.

Kaliyeva, Aida, Azamat Beisakhmet, Katima Iskakova, Aiman Zhakupova, Zarema Abisheva, Abdinur Sultangaliyev, Roman Plokhikh, and Lóránt Dénes Dávid. "Wider Landscapes Become Tourismscapes: Bibliometric Analysis and Identification of Key Issues in the Literature." (2024).

Katontoka, Moses, Francesco Noardo, Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Thomas Esch, Nourian Pirouz, Fulong Chen, and Ana Pereira Roders. "How Urban Is World Heritage? An Investigation of Built-up Area Increase in Cultural Heritage Properties." (2024).

Devendra, Saraniya. "The Persuasiveness of Travel Influencers in Sustainable Tourism." PhD diss., Queensland University of Technology, 2024.

Wang, Hui. "An extended intelligent technique for multiple-attribute decision-making under single-valued neutrosophic sets and applications to sustainable development evaluation of rural ecotourism." International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 27, no. 2 (2023): 219-232.

Ali, Jamshid, Muddasar Ghani Khwaja, Majed Alsolamy, Sultan Aljehani, Khaled Alblowi, and Majed G. Alotaibi. "Assessing dynamics of ecotourism using multi-methods analysis." Journal of Ecotourism 24, no. 3 (2025): 307-327.

Katontoka, Moses, Francesca Noardo, Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Thomas Esch, Pirouz Nourian, Fulong Chen, and Ana Pereira Roders. "No Report, No Densification? A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Densification and Reporting Practices in World Heritage Properties." Land 13, no. 10 (2024): 1646.

Cervelli, E., E. Scotto di Perta, and S. Pindozzi. "Diachronic analyses on land use changes and vernacular architecture distribution, to support agricultural landscape development." Journal of Cultural Heritage 71 (2025): 242-251.

Olah, Branislav, Igor Gallay, Martina Slámová, Tomáš Lepeška, Zuzana Gallayová, and Veronika Paulíková. "From Historical Maps to LiDAR Data-Enhancing Landscape Ecological Research of Cultural Landscape Using Modern Remote Sensing Data Illustrated with Examples from Slovak Traditional Heritage Landscapes." Land 14, no. 7 (2025): 1370.

Minervino Amodio, Antonio, Dario Gioia, Maria Danese, Nicola Masini, and Canio Alfieri Sabia. "Land-Use Change Effects on Soil Erosion: The Case of Roman “Via Herculia”(Southern Italy)—Combining Historical Maps, Aerial Images and Soil Erosion Model." Sustainability 15, no. 12 (2023): 9479.

Sánchez-Martín, José Manuel, Rebeca Guillén-Peñafiel, Paloma Flores-García, and María José García-Berzosa. "Agritourism in Extremadura, Spain from the perspective of rural accommodations: Characteristics and potential development from agrarian landscapes and associated activities." Heritage 7, no. 8 (2024): 4149-4181.

Saputra, K. A. K., and A. K. Jayawarsa. "Revealing The Hegemony of Selective Perception in Managing Ecotourism Based on Natural Environmental Preservation." Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 20, no. 6 (2025): 1138-1157.

Li, Linna, Tianyang Zhang, and Yuanyuan Yang. "Unveiling nonlinear effects of transport development on rural settlement transitions along the “southern Jiangsu-northern Shaanxi” transect in China." Ecological Indicators 159 (2024): 111712.

Bujdosó, Zoltán, Kai Zhu, Hazem Kapil, Aida Kaliyeva, Azamat Beisakhmet, Katima Iskakova, Aiman Zhakupova et al. "Wider landscapes become tourismscapes: bibliometric analysis and identification of key issues in the literature." Journal of Sustainability Research 6, no. 2 (2024).

KANIANSKA, Radoslava - ŠKVARENINOVÁ, Jana - KANIANSKY, Stanislav: Landscape Potential and Light Pollution as Key Factors for Astrotourism Development: A Case Study of a Slovak Upland Region. In: Land 2020, 9, doi: 10.3390/land9100374                                                                                                                           

PETROVIČ, František – MURGAŠ, František – KRÁLIK, Roman: Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Sustainability 13, no. 19: 10826. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910826.

PRUS, Barbara – Dudzińska, Małgorzata – BACIOR, Stanisław: Determining and quantifying the historical traces of spatial land arrangements in rural landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe. In Scientific Reports, vol. 11, Article number: 23421 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02892-x.

LI, Weiwen – ZHOU, Yijang – DAI, Xingan – HU, Fang: Evaluation of Rural Tourism Landscape Resources in Terms of Carbon Neutrality and Rural Revitalization. In Sustainability 14, no. 5: 2863. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052863.

XI, Chen – LI, Qinjin – ZOU, Fuxia – WANG, Dan – LI, Tao – HU, Mengyao: Precision Marketing Strategy for Ecotourism Based on Data Mining and User Images. In Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2022, Article ID 1104633, 8 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1104633.

XIE, Hualin – ZHU, Zhenhong – He, Yafen – ZENG, Xiaoji – WEN, Yuyang:  Integrated framework of rural landscape research: based on the global perspective. Landsc Ecol 37, 1161–1184 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01401-3.

FORNAL-PIENIAK, Beata E. – ŽARSKA, Barbara: Evaluation of Landscape Natural Values in Tourism, with Special Regard to Vegetation – Case Study: Otwock Commune, Central Poland. In Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 31, no. 1 (2022): 665-680. doi:10.15244/pjoes/140289.

TOMETZOVÁ, Dana – LUKÁČ, Marián – HLAVÁČOVÁ, Jana: Tourism Research and Application of New Knowledge Using Latest Technologies in Educational Process. In 18th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA), Košice, Slovenia, 2020, pp. 693-699, doi: 10.1109/ICETA51985.2020.9379160.

ADN: Land use ako nástroj revitalizácie krajiny: na príklade slovenskej exklávy Tardoš (Maďarsko) = Land use as a means of the landscape revitalization: an example of the Slovak exclave of Tardoš (Hungary) / Chrastina, Peter [Autor, 60%] ; Trojan, Jakub [Autor, 30%] ; Župčán, Ladislav [Autor, 8%] ; Tuska, Tunde [Autor, 1%] ; Hlásznik, Pavel P. [Autor, 1%]. – DOI 10.33542/GC2019-2-03. – WOS CC ; SCOPUS. In: Geographia Cassoviensis [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – ISSN 1337-6748. – ISSN (online) 2454-0005. – Roč. 13, č. 2 (2019), s. 121-140 [tlačená forma] [online]

CITATIONS:

FALŤAN, Vladimír et al.: Comparsion of CORINE land cover data with national statistics and the possibilty to record this data on a local scale - case studies from Slovakia. In Remote Sensing 2020, 12, doi: 10-3390/rs12152484

PETROVIČ, František - MURGAŠ, František: Linking sustainability and happiness. What kind of happiness? In GeoScape 2020, vol.

14, no. 1. doi: 10.2478/geosc-2020-0007

PETROVIČ, František et al.: Long-term development of the historical cultural landscape of the UNESCO monument: Vlkolínec

(Slovakia). In Sustainability 2021, 13 (4), https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042227

PETROVIČ, František – PETRIKOVIČOVÁ, Lucia: Landscape Tranformation of Small Rural Settlements with Dispersed Type of Settlement in Slovakia. In European Countryside, vol.13, no.2, 2021, pp.455-478. https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0027

AAB: Vývoj využívania krajiny Trenčianskej kotliny a jej horskej obruby / Chrastina Peter. - Nitra : UKF, 2009. - 285 s. - ISBN 978-80-8094-450-6.

CIATIONS:

FEHÉR, Alexander: The Historical Vegetation of South-west Slovaka. In: Vegetation History and Cultural Landscapes. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60267-7_2

JANČOVIČ, Peter - PETROVIČ, František: The development of the landscape and their impact on the ornithocenosis (contact zone water dam Sĺňava, Slovakia). In: The Problems of Landscape Ecology, 2011, Vol. XXX, pp. 169-175.

BOLTIŽIAR, Martin - OLAH, Branislav: Land Use Changes of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Slovak Carpathians Since the Late Eighteenth Century. In: Kozak J. et al. (eds): The Carpathians: Integrating Nature and Society Towards Sustainability. Environmental Science and Engineering. Berlin; Heidelberg : Springer, 2013, pp. 377-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_27

NEUMANN, Martin: Doklady o rybničnom hospodárstve na červenokamenskom panstve. In: Archaeologia historica, 2019, roč.44, č. 1, s. 421-441. [1] GREGOROVÁ, Bohuslava et al.: Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia. In: Sustainability, 2020, 12(24), https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

GREGOROVÁ, Bohuslava et al.: Transforming Brownfields as Tourism Destinations and Their Sustainability on the Example of Slovakia. In: Sustainability, 2020, 12(24), https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410569

ADM: Reconstruction of the industrial landscape of the town Nováky and its hinterland based on the profiles of cultural-landscape layers = Rekonštrukcia industriálnej krajiny mesta Nováky a j eho zázemia na profiloch kultúrnokrajinných vrstiev / Chrastina Peter [Autor, 75 %], Lukáč Rastislav, 2012. In: Geografie : Sborník České geografické společnosti. - ISSN 1212-0014. - Vol. 117, no. 4 (2012), p. 434-456.

CITATIONS:

ŠANTRŮČKOVÁ, Markéta et al.: Map Analysis of Cultural Heritage Values in Designed Landscapes: A Case Study on Červený Hrádek, Czech Republic. In Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2016, 64, pp. 663-675.

LENOVSKÝ, Ladislav - BINETTI, M. Jose - JANÍKOVÁ, Mária: Ambivalence in interpretations of multiculturalism as aproblem of forming the ethico-axiological foundations in an integrated society. In: European Journal of Science and Theology, 2018, Vol. 14, No.4, pp. 49-58.

ŽABENSKÝ, Marián et al. The ideological direction of the society/individual in a specific historical period. In: European Journal of Science and Theology, 2016, Vol.12, No.6, pp. 223-232.

ADF: Zmeny využitia zeme nížinnej poľnohospodárskej krajiny na príklade obce Nové Sady (1782-2002) / Boltižiar Martin, Chrastina Peter [Autor, 50%], 2008. In: Geoinformation. - ISSN 1336-7234. - Roč. 4, č. 1 (2008), s. 16-35.

CITATIONS:

MUNTEANU, Catalina et al.: Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change. In: Land use policy, 2014, Vol. 38, pp. 685-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.01.012

BLAŽÍK, Tibor et al.: Zmeny využitia zeme vybraných okresov rôznych poľnohospodárskych produkčných oblastí v kontexte prebiehajúcich transformačných procesov. In: Geografický časopis, 2011, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 301-323.

BLAŽÍK, Tibor et al.: Analýza trhu s poľnohospodárskou pôdou na Slovensku na príklade okresov Dunajská Streda a Liptovský Mikuláš v kontexte transformačných procesov po roku 1989. In: Geografický časopis, 2014, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 67-85.

CEBECAUEROVÁ, Martina – MADAJOVÁ, Michala: Od analýzy priestorovej štruktúry k identifikovaniu trendov vo vývoji poľnohospodárskej krajiny v zázemí Bratislavy. In: Geografický časopis, 2015, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 127-148.

Matthias Bel´s Nitra County Notitia (interpretation and application) - principal investigator, APVV-18-0196 (2019 - 2023). The project, in which the departments of four universities in Nitra, Trnava and Zvolen together with the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences participate, is to five years to contribute to a more comprehensive research and interpretation of the philological view of Matthias Bel's work, historical, historical-geographical, ethnological or archaeological research. The results of the interdisciplinary study Bel's work can be effectively applied to the revitalization of regional identities on the example of historical landscapes, historical landscape structures and ethno-cultural phenomena through the application of a cultural itinerary that would bring historical, natural and social phenomena of the territory on the basis of the knowledge gained from the interpretation of Belo's work. The essence and the aim of the project is the Slovak translation of the Latin original of the Nitra County Notitia (lat. COMITATUS NITRIENSIS) and its study in terms of history/historical geography, archaeology, ethnology and museology. https://www.crp.gov.sk/vedomosti-nitrianskej-stolice-m-bela-interpretacia-a

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Natural Conditions of the Nitra County in the 18th Century as Seen by M. Bel (university textbook) - principal investigator, KEGA 005UCM/4-2019 (2019 - 2021). M. Bel in his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica (Notitia) offered a contemporary view of the specific realities of the Hungary. A literature search shows that Notitia of any of the Counties (as a whole, or a part or a section thereof) has not yet been more comprehensively investigated and scientifically interpreted from historical and historical-geographical research, including the application of specific results in the educational process of Universities. The essence and the aim of the project is the Slovak translation of the Latin text of the section De natura et opportunitatibus Comitaus Nitriensis (Section on Nature) of the Notitia of the Nitra County and its interpretation from the point of view of historical geography. The output will be A university textbook (with the working title 'Nature, landscape and man of the Nitra County in the first half of the 18th century as seen by M. Bel) useful for teaching historical geography, environmental history, regional history, or classical languages - Latin (or Old Slovak literature), geography, etc.

Current culture-building, identification and revitalization processes in the environment of ethnic minorities: the Slovaks in Argentina and Canada - Co-investigator, APVV-20-0263 (2021 - 2025). The migration of Slovaks overseas is a permanent continuous process lasting approximately 150 years. It consists of several streams and waves of migrants specific politically, socio-economically, religiously, educationally, socio-professionally or gender-specific. The nature of the source and destination locations, together with the cultural makeup of migrants and their descendants, to to date have shaped an extremely internally differentiated network of communities, institutions, organisations and individuals who, in different degrees and in different ways identify themselves as Slovaks. Some of them, through tradition, importation and their own invention participates in the creation, maintenance and construction of the "overseas" construct of Slovak culture, especially in the form of cultural heritage, but also new forms of culture and art. What are their strategies and motivations for maintaining a minority identity in the contemporary world? What benefits do members of these minorities gain and expect? How are these strategies (and communities) changing under the influence of cultural and linguistic globalization, mass media, de-ethnicization and deconfessionalization on the one hand, and glocalization, the politics of cultural diversity policies, promotion of nation-world activities and the ideology of multiculturalism on the other? "Traditional" ethno(confessional) minorities (and identities) were uncompromisingly supplemented at the turn of the millennium by "new" minorities (and identities), defined by a variety of types of otherness. Are they in competition with "traditional" minorities (and identities), or vice versa? Cultural, social and historico-political multiethnicity of Argentina and Canada creates for Slovak immigrants, in comparison to the European ethnic/civic nationalism, a completely different s vet in which they build social networks, a new home and raise their offspring. Content of intergenerational transmission is here (with exceptions) determined by the ethnic heterogeneity of marriages (multiplied by each successive generations). What determines the non/shared concepts of their cultural heritage, language and identity today? https://www.crp.gov.sk/aktualne-kulturotvorne-identifikacne-a-revitalizacne-procesy-v-prostredi-etnickych-minorit-slovaci-vargentine-a-kanade/

The vanished landscape of Matej Bel (Reconstruction and environmental history of the landscape in the 18th century) - co-investigator, VEGA 1/0770/24 (2024 - 2026). Mathias Bel is also one of the most important personalities of Slovak historiography, not only in the first half of the 18th century, in the context of research on the history of the environment (landscape). We can partially imagine what the landscape looked like in his time, its use by man and its gradual anthropogenic transformations by studying his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica..., in which he elaborated the characteristics of the natural environment, history and society of specific Counties in historical Hungary. The cartographic works created by his collaborator S. Mikovíni are also important in interpreting Bel's descriptions of historical regions. The reconstruction and computer visualisation of contemporary landscapes and their use (i.e. historical land use) requires a comprehensive approach to a particular topic. Historic landscapes, or their relics in contemporary landscapes, should be investigated using environmental history techniques, including computer modelling or visualisation of vanished landscapes of the past. https://www.fpv.umb.sk/katedry/katedra-geografie-a-geologie/veda-a-vyskum/projekty-a-granty/zaniknuta-krajina-mateja-bela-rekonstrukcia-a-environmentalne-dejiny-historickej-krajiny-v-18-storoci.html

Historical gallows of western Slovakia (research, documentation and presentation) - co-investigator, APVV-24-0044 (2025 - 2029). Research into the history of criminal law, historical criminality, and related efforts at redress in the form of sentencing is one of the traditional interests of both legal and general history. In the Middle Ages and the modern period, execution sites were part of the contemporary practice of administering justice for grave transgressions against the social order. Systematic research on execution sites and gallows has almost no representation in Slovakia. In terms of archaeological research, the situation has slowly begun to change only in recent years. Gallows as structurally simple objects occurring in execution sites are in most cases difficult to archaeologically detect in the field. Their remains belong to monuments that have often been completely or partially destroyed, and only fragments and field relics remind us of them in the contemporary landscape. Archaeology alone is able to provide important information and supplement written sources concerning events related to the execution of the death penalty. The social significance of the execution sites for historical communities, as well as their spatial positioning in relation to landscape or urban landmarks, creates good conditions for their presentation in various forms, combining information systems, educational trails and, where appropriate, direct architectonic references in the field. The essence of the project is to identify gallows in the administratively demarcated territory of western Slovakia. The aim is to expand the knowledge base on these architectures in Slovakia from the High Middle Ages and the Modern Period, which will complement the decades-old extensive database of execution sites in Western Europe. On the basis of surviving written sources of a legal nature, vedutas, cartographic documents and field archaeological research and survey, as well as interdisciplinary cooperation, we will significantly advance the research on this issue. An integral part of the project will also be an assessment of the potential for heritage protection of these sites and the subsequent prospect of presenting them to the public.