POSAVSKA KRAJINA/GRANICA OD 1718. DO 1739. GODINE
THE SAVA MILITARY BORDERLAND, 1718 - 1739

Summary/Abstract: Gradual stabilization of the imperial borderlands between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire along the rivers Una and Sava in the period 1718-1739 included farreaching reforms of inherited military border systems on both sides of the frontier. The first objective of those reforms was the establishment of a strict control of any kind of transborder communication of humans and goods. In order to fulfill it, on both sides of the frontier-line it was necessary to build up a relatively large variety of border institutions and prescribe procedures that would serve military purposes, as well as facilitate authorized communications (travel, trade, health conditions, etc.). As a consequence, a relatively large number of (proto)urban centers emerged on neighboring river banks. In some of its aspects, it was almost »hermetically« closed (Cordon Sanitaire). In some others, it was a transfrontalier area of very intensive human contacts and transcultural transfers. This paper will be accomplished on interdisciplinary basis, primarily grounded in eco-history and urban history of imperial borderlands, focused on the river Sava.

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