Regions are seen as historically conditioned phenomena, and on different scales, they can serve as spaces for the discursively constructed identities of their inhabitants. Yet, little is known about what happens to these identities in the long-term when an old regional structure is deinstitutionalised and replaced by a new structure. This article aims to fill this gap in the knowledge; by exploring and analysing spatial identity in a regional amalgam and the relationships between the age categories of its residents, and the meaning of institutionalised and deinstitutionalised regions. The study relies on the statistical analysis of primary data acquired through a questionnaire given to residents of the region under study. The empirical research suggests that a certain time after the transformation of a regional structure the act has imprinted itself on particular generations of a rural regional amalgam in various ways, and it appears that nostalgia for the old region is widespread among older residents.

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当区域身份随着代际的不同而不同时：区域混合体中区域和区域身份的非制度化

区域被视为历史条件下的现象，在不同的尺度上，它们可以作为其居民话语建构的身份的空间。然而，当旧的区域结构被去机构化并被新的结构取代时，人们对这些身份的长期变化知之甚少。本文旨在填补这一知识空白；通过探索和分析区域混合体中的空间特征及其居民年龄类别之间的关系，以及制度化和非制度化区域的含义。该研究依赖于对研究地区居民问卷调查获得的主要数据进行统计分析。实证研究表明，区域结构转型后的某个时间，该行为以各种方式在农村区域混合体的特定世代中留下了印记，并且对旧地区的怀旧似乎在老年居民中普遍存在。