Original scientific paper
The resistance to Germanisation and centralisation of Civil Croatia in 1850
Tomislav Markus
Abstract
The author analyses the resistance of Croatian political circles and public opinion in 1850 to the Germanising and centralist politics enforced by Viennese establishment. The statements of Ban Jelačić, Banal Council, county and municipal authorities, and opposition newspapers from Zagreb on the matter of Germanization and centralization, and also on the problems of the political, economic, and social development of Croatia are analyzed. In their resistance to the Germanising orientation, the Croatian politics and the public pointed out that it was opposite to the proclaimed principle of the equality of nations within the Habsburg Empire, the traditional political autonomy of Croatia, and also to certain royal documents, such as the octroyed constitution of March 1849 and decisions made by the Croatian Diet in 1848. In the end of the article several documents are published indicating some essential problems encountered by the Croatian politics and the public, immediately after the revolution in 1848-1849, in their relation to the central Viennese establishment.
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Hrčak ID:
15860
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Publication date:
1.3.2000.
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