Boka kotorska za neoapsolutizma
THE BAY OF KOTOR DURING NEOABSOLUTISM

Summary/Abstract: Following the unrest of 1848/1849 the inhabitants of the hill country around the Bay of Kotor gradually accepted the duty of paying taxes on the land that was registered to them as well as the obligation of military service duty similar to the other inhabitants of the Kingdom of Dalmatia. In conditions of relative peace and forced silence in the Bay a process of modernization was carried out which can be traced through administrative reforms, judicial reforms, and reforms of the police and military. The previous Territorial Guards were replaced by the Gendarmerie, which had the duty of keeping law and order in the villages of the Bay that had earlier been in a state of unrest. At the end of the 1850s, the Bay along with the rest of Dalmatia was integrated in the customs apparatus of Austria, and new lower rates of customs duty stimulated maritime and inland trade, the foundation of shareholder corporations, the first forms of capitalist enterprise. During these years a telephone line was established through the Bay of Kotor, post offices were opened and telephones and telegraphs were put in place. Two naval academies were established, one in Kotor, the other in Herceg Novi. During the Crimean War and the Austrian war with Piedmont, fortifications were constructed in the Bay and the Bay became transformed into a military base. Along with traditional ways of life, there was an attempt to try new modes, so, for example, the Bay led Dalmatia in the production of silkworms. In the new political climate cultural life was impoverished though it continued to develop quietly in the towns of the Bay of Kotor

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