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Migration of People and Ideas, and Shaping of Identities in Composite Modern Empires in the Eastern Adriatic

The paper represents an interdisciplinary insight into several multidimensional aspects of the early modern identity and its relevance in general, as well as of various impacts on modelling of specific identities in the Eastern Adriatic. Primarily due to its geostrategic position and long lasting unstable political subjections, this multi-border space experienced a continuous pressure of being not just the battlefield of empires but also a dynamic barrier to Ottoman expansions. The collision of different imperial interests of great composite states as the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian Republic or the Habsburg Monarchy and turbulent everyday life were challenging for the shaping of identity. By comparative analysis of archival sources of different provenance and genres, the images of these identities are to be revealed. What did the identity actually mean regarding endangered existence of people and what was the spectrum of statuses of difference, such as political subjection, cultural, ethnic and religious belonging, age, gender, health or nutritious status, economic importance or wealth, hidden under these identities? How often did early modern historical actors define their position in terms of Others, either by strictly taking the sides of different powers that clashed or benefited from the concentration of communications and complex mixture of impacts on the area which was the crossroad of Mediterranean and Central European practices? Contemporary ethnic mosaic as well as demographic, political and consequently economic situation in the Dalmatian hinterland still reflect the remnants of these early modern migrations of different ethnic components, perpetuate the importance of lessons from the past and the way we modified our actions accordingly.

Migration; Identities; Early Modern Empires; Eastern Adriatic

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