Original scientific paper
Contributionaof Slavonian Feudal Possessions from the End of the 17th Century to the Process of European Integrations
Stjepan Sršan
; State Archive in Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
From the listed feudal possessionsin Slavonia,w e can see that their owners originated from highly ranked European owners and state officials. They transferred their European accomplishments to their obtained or purchasedp ossessionsin Slavonia,a nd in that way they were doing European spiritual and material reintegration. There were many castles and husbandries which "exported" their culture and way of farming the land, traditional clothing, customs, literature, language, administration, experts and other to Slavonia, and in that way they rose it in spiritual way to the European level. That is also witnessed by preserved written documentation in archives and libraries. Unfortunately, that European trend is instantly ended after l9l8 with Southern - Balkans mentality, and it completely distanced by cancelling the existence of properties, expelling of land owners and introducing new socialist model of production after 1945. In time, it became clear that excluding from the European way of production and model gave neither spiritual nor economical results, so the totalitarian single-party communist system in economy and politics fell apart. By the arrival of new democratic changes, with great damages in Serbian aggression to Croatia in 1991, Croatia still begins to rise in new European model of production, fitting into the European integration processes, with significant problems of lagging in spiritual and material field.
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79611
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Publication date:
9.10.2008.
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