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Migrations and Permeations between Two Shores of the Adriatic: The Examples of Zadar, Kotor and Venice (the 17th and the 18th Century)

Migrations are among the more prominent historical factors which influenced demographic, social, ethno-cultural and mental circumstances in a certain area. Research of migrations, within the scope of historical research, depends on the access to divergent archival sources, and use of various methodological procedures. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to underline archival sources and methodological procedures used by historians for research of migrations in the preindustrial period, that is, more precisely, in the Early Modern Period. As basic sources, parish records, testaments and other notarial records will be presented, and, finally, also recruiting lists of Venetian army. This research is defined in spatial terms on the migrations between the two opposite sides of the Adriatic: as representatives of the East Adriatic centres are chosen Zadar, the capital of the Venetian province of Dalmatia, and Kotor, the centre of the Venetian rule in the area Southern from Dubrovnik, and as representative of the West Adriatic Venice, the metropolis of the area in that period. The research is temporally limited to the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, that is on the period of intensive migrations caused by political, social and economic events, in the first place by the Ottoman presence in the hinterland of Dalmatian cities and by Veneto-Ottoman warfare. Merchants, artisans, soldiers, clergymen, intellectuals of the most diverse types, and, of course, artists, were among the most frequently mentioned groups of migrants. The analysis of source materials shows that the origin of migrants, declared in the sources, usually represents only a kind of their identity card, while as the places of their professional, but also of private activities (foundation of families and homes), were spread over the wide areas of the Adriatic and Mediterranean basin.

migrations; Early Modern Age; Dalmatia; Boka Kotorska; Venice; arhival sources

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