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https://doi.org/10.52328/t.8.1.3
Legal status of minority groups in Croatia until year 1918
Željko Bartulović
orcid.org/0000-0003-1459-7875
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In this paper, the author deals with the legal aspects of the status of minority religious groups in the territory of the present-day Republic of Croatia until year 1918. Most of this paper is devoted to the rights of the Orthodox population, which mostly overlaps with the right of settled Serbs. The Wallachian statutes (Statuta Walachorum), a royal act from 1630, were analyzed. The next privilege was brought by Emperor Leopold I on April 6th 1690, calling for an uprising of the Serbian people under the rule of the Turks and for the first time mentioning
of duke (vojvoda) – a title that is at the base of the historical name of Vojvodina. Religious freedom was promised by Leopold I to the Serbs in an act issued on August 21st 1690 in Vienna, mentioning the right to own archbishop, as well as in the new privilege on March 4th 1695 sent to the church and secular authorities in Croatia and Hungary, which also establishes the right to own schools. In the 18th century, the Declaratory of Maria Theresa from July 16th 1779, which governs the Church-People's Assembly and the Consistory System of Joseph II on April 5th 1782, which contains procedural regulations before church bodies. When they granted privileges the rulers took more care of their own, state interest, and less of the benefit of the settled Serbs, but they still represent an important beginning and the basis of the legal regulation of the position of the Serbs. In the 19th century the Croatian Parliament confirmed the decisions of the Serbian Church-People's Assembly from 1864 and 1865. Laws on the position of the Jewish religious community were passed in 1873 and 1906. Organisation of the Greek-Eastern religious community and the use of the Cyrillic alphabet. The position of Protestant communities was determined by law in 1898, the Law on Religious Relations was adopted by the parliament in 1906, and the last law on the position of Islamic religious community was from 1916.
Ključne riječi
religion; privileges of residents and religious communities; 17th to 20th century
Hrčak ID:
332531
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Datum izdavanja:
24.6.2025.
Posjeta: 756 *