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Statistic Activity of Ogulin Military Border Regiment and its Documentation
Andrej Čebotarev
; Institut za suvremenu povijest, Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska
Sažetak
Statistical material about the Military Border was not gathered by any service organized particularly for that purpose, but it was done by the existing military administrative structure within its regular activities. Statistical data were gathered, processed and passed to higher administrative instances of military institutions (companies and regiments). There were two groups of data: data that the military authorities needed for their own purposes, and those that resulted from inventories done at the order by central authorities, on their area, for the purposes of central statistics.
Gathering of statistical data began in the Military Border because of the changes in the way of fighting (regular Military Border army replaced mercenaries), and it further intensified with organized recruitment and exempting the Military Border territory from jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.
The largest part of the material kept in the archives refers to the data gathered by the military authorities for their own purposes; only minor part is the result of direct engagement in statistic registrations.
During the period the author is dealing with the registration system steadily grew and extended, so finally it got to include several hundred various records groups and subgroups.
Not all archival material has been saved to the present day, so it is not possible to reconstruct the registration system completely and in all details anymore. However, it can be reconstructed partly.
After the 1852 registration no particular statistics in the Military Border existed, because the enumerations of people, cattle and property, in the sense of the then centralism, were carried out after the same principles and using the same forms as in all other Crown Lands within the Habsburg Monarchy.
For the historical science, especially national Croatian and regional, for instance of Ogulin district, of greater importance are the data gathered by lower administrative institutions – companies, and not regiments that just summed them up. Summary data were published regularly in the central statistic publications of the Habsburg Empire, on the level of regiment, while the data about companies, property districts and villages were not presented except in the papers of a few historians. Although that material has not been saved completely, it can be concluded that the part of it existing in the archives has not been used systematically up to now, thus presenting a great potential for the future historical studies.
Ključne riječi
Military Border; Ogulin Grenzer Regiment; statistics; 18th and 19th century; documental sources
Hrčak ID:
251907
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.11.1992.
Posjeta: 719 *