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Military Frontier čardaci (Log Watch-Towers) in Slavonia-Srijem Posavlje in the 18th and 19th century
Josip Kljajić
; Hrvatski institut za povijest - Podružnica za povijest Slavonije, Srijema i Baranje, Slavonski Brod, Republika Hrvatska
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This paper deals with čardaci- fortifications built during the 18th and 19th century in Military Frontier area of the eastern Croatia (Slavonia-Srijem Posavlje). During the 18th and 19th century, Slavonia-Srijem Posavlje, as a border area, but also due to geographically well-opened area in the east-west direction, had a significant political and military-strategic importance. In the Hapsburg-Ottoman border area the river Sava had a function of the political border also because it was protected by a fortification system (a fortress, čardaci and karaula). Hapsburg military strategists started fortifying it (“minimalist”) before the Karlovac peace in 1699. The border fortifying by čardaci started in this area after the peace in Srijemski
Karlovci and reached its culmination in the second half of the 18th century. In Posavlje, Ëardaciexisted only on the left, Hapsburg side of the river Sava bank, and on the right bank of the Sava the Ottomans built border buildings known as “karaule” (blockhouses). The research of the historical and typological development of these small fortification buildings has been carried out by geographical maps, plans, illustrations, written archive material and relevant literature. According to these sources, the author made a registry table of čardaci and with the help of the dictionary he explained etymologically the meaning of words Ëardakand karaula
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28669
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Datum izdavanja:
11.11.2002.
Posjeta: 3.425 *