Original scientific paper
Dubrovnik Primorje in the Time of the Annexation to the Dubrovnik Republic
Ana Kaznačić-Hrdalo
Abstract
The narrow sea-region belt is called Dubrovnik Primorje which goes from the border of Dubrovnik Astareja to the border of Hercegovina not far from Neum-Klek and Duži. The Republic got Primorje from Bosnian king Ostoja and the local owner Radič Sanković.
The usual agrarian relationship, which was formed in the 14 th century in Dubrovnik Astareja, was taken by the new regions, but not completely in the same form, because they had to consider the situation they had there before.
The basic characteristic of the agrarian relationship in the region of the Republic and Primorje was that owner of the land was not at the same time the one who cultivated the land; the landowner gave his land to a copyholder who had to give the amount, which was the matter of their mutual free agreement. It had to be signed in the Dubrovnik office to avoid the later conflict among them. Although it was a free agreement among them there were usual kinds of the agrarian relationship in every part of the Republic.
The landowners in the region of Primorje where noblemen, some plebeians and the church. The noblemen got 242 of the marked parts all together and plebeians got 48 of the marked parts. In the time the distribution of the land there were 15 churches and each of them got a solad of the land. The prince of Primorje got some land.
In this way the land in Primorje was divided into desetine (the measure) and desetina was divided into the marked parts, and they were divided again into quarters (četvrtine). Desetine
were not to be of the same size because it had not the same amount of the land for the cultivation and it was not of the same quality. Desetine was marked at borders by crosses.
The measure for the land which was used was solad. It is not still clear the size of solad in the region of Primorje. I think that the commision used the measure as above mentioned.
Keywords
Dubrovnik Primorje; Dubrovnik, 14 century
Hrčak ID:
244668
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Publication date:
30.6.1979.
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