Original scientific paper
Evaluation of Centralization in Podravina Settlements in the Late Middle Ages
Ranko Pavleš
; Podravka, Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
Using Podravina region as a case study, the article tries to establish an evaluation model of centralization in medieval settlements. The first part deals with hierarchy of urban settlement types, from Koprivnica, as the most urbanized and economically the most developed town, on to towns of medium importance (Ludbreg, Prodaviz, Gorbonok), all the way to settlement of less importance, such as Rasinja, Podkameno, Vlaislav, Susica, Djurdjevec. The second part evaluates rural settlements, adding to the existing criteria of evaluation in centralization (based on existence of churches and sacral objects in certain village), the evaluation based on administrative and judiciary functions relating to a settlement, exercised on these estates through so-called function of ‘vesnikat’. This paper particularly deals with small estates of lesser nobility, as they had different influence on the villages they lived in.
Keywords
Podravina; middle age; centralization settlements
Hrčak ID:
77746
URI
Publication date:
1.11.2009.
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