Virtual space in geography
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Virtual world is not only a topic of fantasy literature. It can be a topic of serious scientific research: see simulations, prognosis and models. A kind of virtual construction is counterfactual one that is dealing with an alternative simulation of reality in the past. The fact even less probably than the others becomes a historic event and it becomes only one that is worthy to be a topic of scientific analysis. Virtual constructions can used in advertisement, propaganda, teaching and science as well. Some counterfactual attitude was used in teaching in University of Ostrava since 2002. They are: alternative scenarios of development of America during the seminars of regional geography and exercise of alternative perception the problem of Teschen Silesia divided 1920 between Poland and Czechoslovakia. They are more topics for virtual or counterfactual analysis in the field of Czech geography, predominantly historical geography