The core includes the mountain settlement itself, surrounded by gardens and orchards, followed by narrow-striped fields and then hay meadows and pastures. The peripheries of the village reach generally to the highest localities with forests. A model archetype is the village Strelnı ´ky, located in the end of one of the valleys cut into the original plain at the northern edge of the Pol’ana stratovolcano (Fig. 8a, b). A representative archetype of non-karts fluvially divided plateau is the area of Hrin ˇova ´ at the northern edge of the Pol’ana Mountain. Settlement of the area of Hrin ˇova ´ and the adjacent dispersed settlements has a long history, since the Bronze Age and especially the period of thirteenth–fourteenth century, when mountain areas of Slovakia became the object of interest of an agricultural expansion, including Podpol’anie. The Wallachian colonization period marked also the area of Hrin ˇova ´ with the arrival of population with skills in pastoralism, wood processing and production of charcoal. The emergence of dispersed settlements was typical for the period of 17th–18th century, which led to a significant intervention into the originally forested landscape. The result was the emergence of a specific type of dispersed settlement and especially the way of agricultural landuse which has been preserved until today. Its characteristic feature are the elements of historical structures of agricultural landscape with a high environmental and ecological significance (Mojses et al. 2011; Mojses and Petrovic ˇ 2013;S ˇpulerova ´ et al. 2013). The relationship between human activity and conditions of a relief, including morphometric parameters, indicates a high potential of slope modelling. In particular, these are processes of slope deformation—especially landslides of the weathering mantle, which are current in concave forms of ends of vale valleys. The hydrological regime of the area is closely related to the way of management and mosaics of fields. For the dispersed settlements near Hrin ˇova ´ were clearly applied water-retention, braking and damping effects of fields and balks with the consequent arrangement in the direction of isopleths respecting landforms (Fig. 9a, b).