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Social Differentiation in the History of the Yugoslav Village
Lujo Margetić
Sažetak
The author starts by discussing the
structure of society in the late
classical period and shows how the
system of municipal communes
{civitates) with their territory
(ager) was transformed in the
second half of the 6th century by
the appearance of many castella,
castra, with a military population,
which felt itself to be politically
and economically independent
from the former centre of the
municipal commune. We can
follow that development of the
partial militarization of the
Byzantine castri in Istria also,
where at least part of their
population were of Slav origin.
After conquering the Balkan
peninsula the Slavs also founded a
large number of military-peasant
communes in many ways similar to
the Byzantine castri. In the
beginning their inhabitants had
primarily military obligations,
which later gradually changed into
taxes in kind or other kinds of
taxes (including taxes in money). peasant communes on the
territory of Yugoslavia were
formerly organized in a military
manner is also indicated by the
word for serf — kmet. It stems
from the Latin word comes,-itis,
follower, and obviously used to
denote a military follower of lower
rank, an ordinary soldier, who
became linked to the land when it
was distributed and in later
centures turned into an
agricultural producer.
During the centuries other strata
of the peasant population with
military or other similar duties
developed in the Yugoslav coastal
regions. Because of that they had
different and usually smaller
levies: the permani, military
followers of the Krčki princes and
border guards in the Grobnik region towards Germany (probably
from the 12th century onwards);
the knapi in Bakar, Bribir and
Novi, formed at the time of fierce
conflict between the different
branches of the Frankopan family
(14th century and onwards); the
Vlachs, who were even organized
in the region of Bakar and Novi
into special communes, from the
beginning of the 17th century.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119414
URI
Datum izdavanja:
11.6.1980.
Posjeta: 1.299 *