Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32728/h2021.05
Population of Svetvinčenat Parish between 1909 and 1918: peacetime vs. wartime. Analysis of modernization processes and the impact of adverse extraordinary circumstances at micro locational level
Gordana Kliman Grabar
Abstract
This paper deals with the research of natural population growth and the impact of modernization processes on socio-demographic determinants of the population in the Svetvinčenat Parish from 1909 to 1918. The main part of the paper, divided into three main content parts, represents the data obtained from the analysis of data from the registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths. In addition to a ten year data analysis, comparative data from the peacetime period, from 1909 to 1913, and the five-year period of the First World War, are analysed, during which, in addition to recruiting and requisitioning crops and livestock, the parishioners of Svetvinčenat were included in the evacuation order in May 1915. In addition, Istria, and thus the Svetvinčenat Parish, was hit in 1917 by one of the most severe droughts of the 20th century. In addition to analysing the impact and dynamics of changes in the natural population growth under the influence of unfavourable, extraordinary circumstances, the paper also analyses the peculiarities at the micro locational (settlements) level of the parish. The research is based on the registers of the baptisms, marriages, and the deceased, Status animarum 1910 of Svetvinčenat Parish, and the List of Losses (Verlustliste) – periodical publication of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of War of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
Keywords
Svetvinčenat Parish; World War I; parish books; natural population growth; demographic analysis; modernization processes
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Publication date:
30.12.2021.
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