Review article
The Bjelovar Fair-Related Regulations of 1862
Željko Holjevac
Abstract
In 1862, Bjelovar received new fair-related regulations. At that time, Bjelovar was a military municipality within the Varaždin District of the Croatian-Slavonian Military Border, a military town granted as early as in 1772 by Maria Theresa the title to hold fairs. The new fair-related regulations were signed on 7 June 1862 by lieutenant colonel Joseph Halla, then Mayor of Bjelovar. It was stipulated by the regulations that weekly fairs were to be held on Sundays, monthly fairs on the first Monday of every month, and yearly fairs on 19 May and 20 October of every year. The fair-related regulations of 1862, written in the German language and the Gothic script, safe kept as manuscript at the State Archives in Bjelovar, though known in the literature on the history of Bjelovar, have so far not been properly dealt with. Here they are published in full, in the German original, transliterated from the Gothic into the Latin script, and in the author’s translation into the contemporary Croatian language.
Keywords
Bjelovar; fair; regulations; 1862
Hrčak ID:
85396
URI
Publication date:
20.7.2012.
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