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150 YEARS OF NUMERICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VUKOVAR-TOWN AND GREATER AREA POPULATION
Alica Wertheimer-Baletić
; Ekonomski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
Analysis of the numerical development of the population in the
Vukovar area, Le. the municipality of Vukovar, as the easternmost
part of the Croatian Republic in the period 1857-1991, indicates
that its determinants were complex and under simultaneous
greater or lesser influence of certain specific factors in each of the
four mentioned intercensus periods. Vukovar's important
geographic position (especially for traffic) on the Danube, as well
as the natural riches of this area, determined the role of migration
in the overall change (increase/decrease) of this region's number
of inhabitants. Vukovar and the surrounding villages have
experienced immigration of extensive proportions in certain
intercensus periods, which was, especially in the second half of
the 19th century, multinational in character. Immigration in the
period after the First and Second world wars manifested itself
through two agricultural colonizations. It should be stressed that
in connection to its geo-traffic position, political factors (the two
world wars and the 1991/92 Greater-Serbian armed aggression
against Croatia) considerably influenced population figures, so
that the town of Vukovar experienced four exoduses of its
inhabitants in this century alone, selectively, according to national
membership, out of which the largest in number but also the most
brutal was the exodus of Croatian and other non-Serbian
nationalities (the Hungarians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, Slovaks,
Czechs and others) after the occupation of Vukovar by the
Yugoslav Army and Chetniks.
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Hrčak ID:
32536
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.3.1993.
Posjeta: 3.568 *