Original scientific paper
Numerical Data and Religious Affiliation of the Population of Insular, Coastal and Tramontane Region of Dalmatia according to Census in 1890
Saša Mrduljaš
orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-2243
Abstract
Among Austrian censuses in Dalmatia, and they did not include questions about ethnicity, the census in the year 1890 has special importance. Up to its implementation, period of Dalmatian autonomist political dominance was finished almost in all parts of Dalmatia. During that dominance it was to a certain degree advantageously and even trendy as a mother tongue to indicate the Italian. In this way, significant part of inhabitants whose mother tongue was not Italian declared themselves in advantage of that language. With subsequent political changes in advantage of Party of People option, such kind of declarations reduced Italian language speakers to a minimum. That was manifested for the first time in the 1890 census. Another important significance of that census, and it was the impetus for this research, was that it had happened just before the massive migrations from Dalmatia and inside it. It was the period when that population still stayed in settlements and in social environments of their traditional belonging which mutually differed. Consistently with political development, the greatest far-reaching identity differences followed from the belonging to coastal, insular and tramontane region belts and from division between Catholicity and Orthodoxy. The aim of this paper is to define how many of Dalmatian population lived within each of these belts and to determine the religious affiliation of that population.
Keywords
Dalmatia; population; inhabitants; identity; islands; coastal region; tramontane region-Dalmatinska Zagora; Catholicity; Orthodoxy
Hrčak ID:
130020
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2014.
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