Abstract
Landscape is one of the core geographic concepts. However, its definition can not be regarded as absolutely clear.
Thus it is the subject of discussions. Contemporary geographic research of landscape is more or less sharply divided between human and physical geography, or more precisely between cultural geography and landscape ecology.
Of which both of these disciplines are being developed in contemporary geography, even if in different geographical and disciplinary contexts. These disciplines do not communicate the definition of landscape much between each other.
Moreover, in the last decades landscape became the object of intensive research in many other disciplines along with geography. This is a progress which must not always lead to the clarification of its definition.
The thesis discusses the position of geography in landscape research, different approaches to landscape within geography are compared and formulation of the comprehensive definition of landscape is attempted.