Pro tempore, No. 17, 2022.
Pregledni rad
Central European Colonization of Slavonia and Syrmia during the 18th Century
Jan Tomek
Sažetak
The paper is an overview of the settlement of the population from Central Europe, mostly Germans, in Slavonia and Syrmia during the beginning of this process, in the 18th century. Descriptions of the post-Ottoman Slavonia, of the needs of the new civil and military administrators, and of the economic and demographic situation in the Holy Roman Empire point to pull and push factors of this migration. The overview of the settlement is divided into that in the Kingdom of Slavonia and that in the Slavonian Military Frontier with a distinction between the types of settlement and the professions of transmigrants. The assumption was that they were settled for purposes of economic development – artisans in urban settlements, and farmers familiar with new agricultural techniques and crops in rural areas. During the period in question, most colonizers from Central Europe were sent further east, to Bačka and Banat, but in the author’s opinion, they also contributed to the economic and cultural development of certain areas in Slavonia, especially urban settlements. Due to the extensiveness of the topic, the aim of this paper is primarily to offer a more extensive introduction and some contribution to the research of the phenomenon of colonization of Slavonia and Syrmia during the 18th century and to allow further research.
Ključne riječi
Slavonia; Syrmia; 18th century; colonization; migration; Germans; economic development
Hrčak ID:
301696
URI
Datum izdavanja:
24.12.2022.
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