Review article

The Varaždin generalates in the service of the Viennese court’s absolutist aims

Lidija Cerić

Abstract

During the entire existence of the Military Border, from 1578 until its demilitarization in 1871 and unification with Civil Croatia in 1881, the Croatian Diet repeatedly requested the extension of the governing powers of the Croatian Ban and the Diet to include the territory of the Military Border. This request especially concerned the Varaždin generalates, a territorial unit that, following the liberation of Slavonia and Srijem from the Turkish rule in the seventeenth century was
no longer a region bordering the Ottoman Empire. This change in circumstances was among the strongest-or even the strongest-argument used by the Croatian estates to request the return of the Varaždin generalates under the jurisdiction of the Croatian Diet.

Keywords

Military Border; Varaždin generalate; Viennese court; Croatian Diet

Hrčak ID:

40294

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/40294

Publication date:

30.7.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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