Сумарни попис насеља, имовине и становништва Пакрачког, Субоцког, Забрдског и Подборског војводства у Малој Влашкој из 1721. године
Summary Census of the Settlements, Property and Inhabitants of the Duchies of Pakrac, Subocka, Zabrđe and Podbor in Mala Vlaška, Dating from 1721

Summary/Abstract: Маla Vlaška was a term used to designate the Turkish krajina in the Western sources dating from the XVIth and the XVIIth centuries, laying in the Western Slavonija. This territory was consequently called since the Serbian population that inhabited the area and got settled there in the first decades of the Turkish rule, had privileges equal to those of the Vlah population – the Serbian people paid a moderate tax income per house and performed a guardian service on the border stretching towards the governing domain of Varaždin. After the Vienna War (1683-1699), at the time when Slavonija became an integral part of the Habsburg Monarchy, only the smaller part of Mala Vlaška got included into the Vojna krajina, while the remaining part of it got divided into several landed estates in 1702. The Palace Chamber of Vienna has either used these estates for its own purposes, or handed them over to the private estate owners. During the first decade of the Habsburg administration in the former Osmanic Slavonija, the inhabitants of Mala Vlaška performed military service. Therefore, the territorial division on duchies was preserved even after the year 1702, even though these duchies remained feudal estates in the posession of the Palace Chamber of Vienna. In this supplement the census of 1721 was published. This census included all the heads of households in these duchies, of their adult sons and brothers, of the widows in posession of land estates, of their sheep and goats as well as neat cattle, of the plowed fields, of the fields being mowed, of the vineyards and orchards (plum orchards), as well as mills. The details concerning inhabitance of this area can be established on the basis of the information contained in the census with certainty: according to our calculation, there were approximately 6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The insignificant number of inhabitants had, as a consequence, the insignificant quantity of the lands that was being used – the plowed fields were spread on the surface of 6.412,5 acres or 3687,8 hectares, оr only on the 3,20% of the total surface of the four duchies. The information on the fields being mowed, on vineyards and orchards have not been given in geometrical, but in economic measures, and their surface can thus be only approximately estimated. Generally, the fields being mowed occupied the surface of 967,29 hectares, vineyards that of 100 hectares and plum orchards (of 13.397 tree trunks) the surface of 13,39 hectares. If this estimation is proved to be correct, the farming land estates occupied the 4,14% of the entire surface of the duchies. The existence of similar circumstances in other parts of Slavonija and Srem led the central office in Vienna to take appropriate measures in order to improve the inhabitance trends and the maximum usage of soil, since state tax incomes depended upon these as well.

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