Göcsej: a forested region of deep valleys and gorges in Western Hungary, in the southwestern part of Zala County. Originally a military frontier zone, its later population was dominantly of the middle and lesser nobility. Poor in farm land, the region has preserved some uniquely archaic methods of agriculture: burning the brush to clear the land, the cultivation of some prehistoric grains (millet and buckwheat), and a form of viticulture that is no longer practiced in any other part of Europe.