Review article
Multiple Borderlands of Podravina Region - Different Approach, Objects and Methods of Research
Mira Kolar Dimitrijević
orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5700
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb – Full Professor (retired)
Hrvoje Petrić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper presents the research of Podravina multiple-bordered region, as a territory from the midflow of River Drava and wide spatial regions on Drava’s left and right river banks. In historic context, this area alongside Rivers Drava, Mura and their affluent streams have never been studied or researched as a whole, or a compact territory, yet numerous influences, particularly in environmental and historical standpoint, intertwined here. The authors planned the research of Podravina multi-bordered region as an “intermediate level” between micro-history and macro-history. While in general micro-history aims to research relatively homogenous human societies and/or settlements, the micro-history of Podravina multiple-bordered region from the very start aims to research relatively or extremely heterogeneous human societies/settlements. On the other hand, the border on River Drava (except for period mid-16th until the end of 17th century, when Drava was an imperial river borderline between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires) in most cases represented the uniting - not dividing - line. This is why this research aims at linking all research potentials of all Drava banks (left and right, upstream and downstream - including the banks of Drava joining affluent streams) and the widest linking of nations, people, settlements and environment, in hope that it can help build a joint European comparative history of Podravina.
Keywords
River Drava; comparative history; environmental history; multiple borderlands
Hrčak ID:
78436
URI
Publication date:
1.11.2005.
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