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Territorial Development and Boundary Determination of the Varaždin Generalate (1630-1771)
Mirela Slukan Altić
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Sažetak
The Territory of the Varaždin Military Border was not a clearly bordered area until 1630. The first intentions to define the territorial bordering of this part of the Military Border were originated in 1630 when the ‘Statute Valachorum’ was introduced and when it was necessary to define the territory where this Vlach’s law would be imposed. At the beginning of the 18th century the reform of the Military Border occurred and included the establishment of a new territorial organisation of the Varaždin Military Border into the Varaždin Generalate with the centre in the town of Koprivnica. In this way, in 1749 the organisation of the old Captaincy was terminated and a system of two new regiments was introduced: the Đurđevac Regiment and the Križevci Regiment. Conditions for the demilitarisation of some border parts of the Varaždin Generalate after the centre of the regiments and the Generalate was moved to Bjelovar in 1765 were established. These were mainly the parts of the Generalate where the free and royal towns of Križevci and Koprivnica were. It was necessary to resolve numerous interferences by the civil territory with the territory of the Military Border after the decision about the establishment of the new territorial organisation in the Varaždin Generalate was made. The main changes happened in the areas of Koprivnica and Križevci whose territories were given back to civil Croatia. Boundary determination which started immediately after the separation of Koprivnica and Križevci from the Military Border lasted until 1777 because of numerous property litigations. At the same time a new boundary determination of the whole of the Varaždin Generalate had started and took until 1771 to complete. Within this time in the borderline zone between the Varaždin Generalate and civil Croatia 25 villages were exchanged: 16 villages of the civil Croatia went to the Varaždin Generalate and 9 villages were annexed to the Provincial. In this way the new border of the Varaždin Generalate was established and it would be the border with civil Croatia until 1871 when the Generalate was finally terminated. Analysis of the territorial development and boundary determination of the Varaždinski Generalate is based on archive material of the War Council in Vienna, documents of the United Governor’s - Varaždin - Karlovac General Command, minutes of the City Council of Koprivnica preserved in Varaždin and Zagreb and original maps of the boundary determination preserved in the Chamber Archive in Vienna and the Croatian State Archive in Zagreb.
Ključne riječi
Varaždin Generalate; Military Border delimitation; Koprivnica; Križevci; cartographical sources; delimitation map
Hrčak ID:
78613
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2005.
Posjeta: 1.633 *