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This volume also explores the arrival and subsequent social impact of a new wave of immigrants to Istria set against the backdrop of these sixteenth-century tensions. The fearsome Morlaks, Slavic speakers who had fled north from the Balkan hinterlands in the face of the Ottoman threat, were invited …
Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier
living on a borderland in the sixteenth century
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232 pages
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1 January 1970
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Summary
The Istrian peninsula, located at the head of the Adriatic Sea, has long been a land of divisions. Shared today between the modern-day countries of Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia, the region during the sixteenth century was divided between an urban coastline dominated by the Republic of Venice and a rural inland that fell under the sway of the Austrian Habsburgs. The subject populations of the peninsula–predominantly Slavic Croatians and Slovenians–thus found themselves split between these riva…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9782503551869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 2503551866 |
| Series: | Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) |
| Author: | Robert Kurelic |
| Publisher: | Brepols N.V. |
| Imprint: | Brepols N.V. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1970 |
| Weight: | 213g |
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