Original scientific paper
Nikola Divnić (1654 – 1734), Nobleman from Šibenik and Colonel of the Cavalleria Croati
Lovorka Čoralić
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The participation of Croatian officers and soldiers in the Venetian military service throughout centuries is still – to the most extent – an open and inadequately researched topic. Thanks to valuable material from the Venetian State Archives, which includes very detailed lists of the Croatian overseas units (in the collection Inquisitori sopra l’amministrazione de’ pubblici ruoli) in the XVIIIth century, it is possible not only to research several components of the military operation of numerous high-ranking officers who fought under the Venetian flag, but also to find out many data regarding the structure of military units under the commandership of the highest-ranking officers of the Croatian origin. In this paper, the research focuses on Nikola Divnić, a nobleman from Šibenik, who served as colonel of an elite Venetian unit (Croati a cavallo, Cavalleria Croati) in the early decades of the XVIIIth century. Apart from mentioning the descendants of the Divnić family who excelled in the military service, the paper presents basic information on Divnić’s military operation while serving the Venetian Republic; furthermore, following the trace of the original material from the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, it analyses the structure of the units under colonel Divnić’s personal commandership. Special attention has been paid to the background structure of Divnić’s units, and the annex brings some of the lists of manpower in the Divnić regiment.
Keywords
Nikola Divnić; Šibenik; the Venetian Republic; Dalmatia; Cavalleria Croati; military history; XVIIIth c
Hrčak ID:
94483
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2012.
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