Review article

https://doi.org/10.47960/2831-0322.2022.1.26.105

THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE CITY OF OSIJEK, A SPECIAL REVIEW OF THE FIRST TWO PHASES OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Zvjezdana Penava Brekalo ; Faculty of Education J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek

Abstract

In the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Osijek had been ranked as second in Croatia by the demographic indicators and the economic potenitials. In the period stated there had been several respectable companies founded, that were among the greatest companies in the Croatian national territory ( the brewery, the match factory, the leather factory, the gasworks, the furniture factory, the flax factory, the sugar factory, the chocolate factory, the soap factory, the biscuit factory and other companies). Based on the archives and the relevant literature, in this paper the authoress presents the industrialization process in the city of Osijek in the course of the first two phases of the industrial development, referring to the craft and manufa- cture phase, lasting from 1853 to 1870, and to the railway stage, lasting from 1870 to 1918. Thereby the significance of the city on the Drava River is pointed out as being the economic center of Slavonia and the whole Eastern Croatia.

Keywords

the city of Osijek; transition; industry; industrial development.

Hrčak ID:

284626

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/284626

Publication date:

21.10.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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