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Everyday Life on the Military Frontier

The Austrian Military Frontier, a borderland adjacent to the Ottoman Empire that stretched some 1, 900 km from the Adriatic to the Carpathian Mountains, primarily served to protect the Habsburg dominions against Ottoman attacks. It was a unique military institution with a singular character, in which military authorities overseen by Vienna governed not only military personnel, but all its residents. The Frontier was regarded as a source of affordable and reliable soldiers, as all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty years were subject to military service in the Austrian army. The communal households to which these peasant-soldiers or Grenzer, as they were called, belonged, were endowed with small grants of land. The Military Frontier was at the same time one of the most effective quarantine zones, protecting Europe from epidemic disease.

Habsburg Monarchy ; Military Frontier ; Croatia ; Slavonia ; Grenzer ; Maria Theresa ; Joseph II ; communal households

Isto je predavanje održano 25.10.2017.