Professional paper
Military Commune of Bjelovar in ‘ the waking/spring of the nations’ 1848-1849
Željko Karaula
Abstract
The paper describes the process of the Croatian National Renaissance Movement concerning the Varaædin Military Border and Military Commune of Bjelovar in 1848/49. Those events generated open national, economic and freedomseeking activities among thin strata of bourgeois and military active officials in the Military Commune of Bjelovar, as well as their struggle against the powers that tried to slow down these processes (military bureaucratic caste). Although economic and political underdevelopment of the region limited its renaissance activities, even such modest changes meant a significant growth in ideas of national integration and desire to change too rigid military system of the Military Border. Ferdo Rusan appears as the main recorder of renaissance movements in Varaædin Military Border area and Bjelovar Military Commune. He publicised by speech and pen the details and opinions of civil and military classes that clearly show how the people of the region became part of the growing and progressing Croatian Movement.
Keywords
‘waking (spring) of the nations’; revolution; ‘national demands’; Bjelovar; borderland army; years 1848-1849; national integration
Hrčak ID:
9052
URI
Publication date:
25.2.2007.
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