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https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vcr7ky
Continuity regarding land property in contrast to political discontinuity: western part of Vransko Blato between the Ottoman and the Venetian land-registry practices
Marko Rimac
; Odsjek za povijest, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
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Sažetak
The paper analyses the available Ottoman sources concerning land property relations in a specific area located to the west of Vransko blato, which had been conquered by the Ottomans. The Ottoman defters showed that this border area had been granted a separate status in the form of zemins, mustahfizes, farises and azaps of the Vrana fortress, i.e., given as property to the members of its crew of the time. Thereby, a specific situation came to be – the Venetian subjects from the villages of the neighbouring Biograd Littoral continued to cultivate this land. The local autochthonous families, and the families who moved from the territory conquered by the Ottomans, had held to the land even before the introduction of the Ottoman rule. This was due to the continuity of land property relations and the agrarian production, which, after the Middle Ages, continued in the Early Modern Period regardless of the change of the political framework. Moreover, these land property relations remained the same even after the Ottomans had been expelled. Hence, using retrograde and metrological analysis, the Venetian land registries dating from early 18th century may offer exceptionally valuable conclusions with regard to both the Ottoman and the mediaeval periods. The results of the metrological analysis were substantiated by the preserved data concerning land property relations in the village of Pakoštane thanks to the major court case held at the beginning of the 18th century between the inheritors of the feudal rights of the Biograd family of Senjanović and the villagers of Pakoštane. This family’s feud consisted of 40 ždrijebs that had been granted to Marino Carnarutti, the first investiture beneficiary, as early as around mid-15th century. Due to the circumstances, Pakoštane had to be resettled in 1597; however, the population of the time continued to cultivate the total of the mentioned 40 ždrijebs even after the Ottomans had become owners of the majority of the area based on peaceful demarcation. Metrological analysis showed that, at the time of the first Venetian land registry, the inhabitants of Pakoštane held a plot of land sufficient for 40 ždrijebs on the new territory, so that here, the continuity of land property relations caused by the change of the political framework may fall under no doubt whatsoever.
Ključne riječi
Vransko blato; Biograd Littoral; district Kotar; Vlach status; filurija; ždrijeb; gonjaj
Hrčak ID:
325037
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Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2024.
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