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Croats in Western Hungary in 1828: Social Structure and Economic Reality
Željko HOLJEVAC
Sažetak
The author gives basic information about the social
circumstances and economic life in settlements of
Burgenland (Gradi{}e) Croats in today's western Hungary
according to the 1828 census. Fourteen contemporary
settlements have been included: Petrovo Selo, Hrvatske [ice,
Gornji ^atar, Narda, Temerje, Hrvatski @idan, Prisika,
Plajgor, Unda, Koljnof, Vede{in, Umok, Kemlja and Bizonja.
The subject of this census, archived in the Hungarian
National Archives in Budapest, were people, houses and
plots, wheat yields, fields, vineyards, orchards (especially
plum orchards), large and small livestock, woods and inns.
Based on numerical data from the census the author
analyses the social relations and economic situation in the
mentioned Burgenland-Croatian settlements in western
Hungary, comparing them at the same time with quotes
about Croats in western Ugarska (hist. Hungary) in the study
of Slovak ethnographer Ján ^aplovi~ (Johann von
Csaplovics) from that period. The 1828 census indicates that
settlements of the west-Hungarian (Burgenland) Croats on
the territory of today's west Hungary were, with regard to
social structure and economic reality, markedly agricultural
settlements, namely villages. Living in these and other
settlements, Croats and other inhabitants constantly followed
the same sociocultural pattern of life in rural communities,
which as a rule participated very little in activities in a
broader sense and at a time when modernisation was under
way in the Habsburg Monarchy taking this middle European
conglomerate of countries and peoples slowly from an
obsolete feudal system into a newly emerging capitalist
social horizon.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
17972
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2005.
Posjeta: 1.572 *