Original scientific paper
THE BOSILJINA – MARINA AUTOCHTHONOUS INHABITANTS FORM 1583 TO 1800
Nevenka Bezić-Božanić
; Split
Abstract
Bosiljina is the peninsula between Seget and Rogoznica at the back of which lies the place Marina bearing its name after St. Marina the almost forgotten saint. Even today her church is standing at the entrance into the settlement. In the Middle Ages the place used to be mentioned by both names at the same time, depending on the author of individual documents. This supplement deals with the Marina parish registers of births (1583), marriages (1630) and deaths (1637) until the end of the 18th c. Though some years are lost in the worn out older books it is still possible to throw light, at least approximately, on the way of life on this area from the second half of the 16th to the end of the 18th c. The registers show that mostly autochthonous Croatian people lived in the Marina parish, which is proved by single documents where the origin of the first generation of the immigrants was always registered. They settled in Marina as craftsmen, married the well-off young girls or worked as male servants on the lands of the better-off Marinans. In 1657 the place was put to sack by the Turks. Its revival began only by the seventies of the 17th c. which is corroborated by the data in the registers which had not been kept from 1657 to 1666. During that period some families were extinct, some moved out never to return again. However, some did return so that their descendants live in Marina even today. According to some sources prior to the Turkish attack Marina counted over one thousand inhabitants. Exactly a hundred years later (in 1757) this number was reduced to only 732 inhabitants.
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138148
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Publication date:
1.2.1996.
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