Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21857/m8vqrt3dz9
Archival fund and the operation of the court commissioner Peter Goëss in Dalmatia (1802–1804)
Dubravka Kolić
; The State Archives in Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
*
Barbara Crnković
; The State Archives in Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
In 1797, when Dalmatia was taken over by Austria, the four-centurylong Venetian rule came to its end, and numerous changes in the life of the inhabitants of Dalmatia were conducted. In addition to the Emperor and his closest associates, the prime movers and protagonists of those changes were court commissioners, who ruled Dalmatia until 1804. Apart from Raimond Thurn, who served as the first court commissioner of Dalmatia, the second most prominent court commissioner discussed in literature is Peter Goëss. This paper offers a survey of his operation from taking over the management in Dalmatia to handing his resignation to the Emperor, with regard to the introduction of changes in the domains of economy, administration, judiciary, schooling, public charity, and health care. In follow-up, the preserved material from his office was analysed. The organisation and content of the material, as well as the procedures undertaken in connection therewith, were compared. Based on the documents referring to the Pag Commune, an attempt was made to present the informational potential of this material as a source of the history of the Dalmatian communes. The analysis of the documents helped determine new facts regarding the rule of the Austrian institutions in Dalmatia in the period between 1797 and 1806, and open questions related to the future research.
Keywords
first Austrian rule in Dalmatia; Peter Goëss; archival fund; the Pag Commune
Hrčak ID:
325159
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2024.
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