Discussion and conclusion
Presented examples of the landscape archetypes in Slovakia represent a new concept of understanding of landscape development and regionalization. Archetypes classification corresponds to Landscape convention (2000) and brings an original solution for identification of landscape with an emphasis on their particular values. In accordance with Agnoletti (2008), we can consider archetypes to be highly significant elements of national cultural heritage and preservation of biodiversity, threatened by the changes ongoing in the conditions of a rural landscape. Archetypes of mountain areas inside the Carpathian Paleogene have a significant arrangement of the mosaic of narrow-striped fields with signs of concentric arrangement, symmetry and asymmetry. Processes of landslides and potential soil erosion are also significantly applied. Archetypes of flysch highlands of the outer Paleogene are characterized also by streaky patterns of forested ridges and agriculturally used erosion-denudation valleys, elements of outside the forest vegetation of potholes, symmetric and asymmetric arrangements of elements. Regarding processes, applied are block formation landslides and landslides of the weathered mantle, as well as forms of concentrated surface runoff in a form of erosion furrows and potholes. The archetypes of mountain ridges and non-karst plateaus show signs of abandonment of agricultural land with application of various stages of succession and abandonment of the landscape. Archetypes of karst areas are in many cases in the process of succession, on the plateaus as well as on the recently used southern slopes. Many vineyards in the more exposed parts of the upper slopes are desolated. The obtained knowledge implies that the archetypes of the mountainous regions of Slovakia: