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Uskoks between War and Trade. Pirates on the Venetian-Ottoman-Habsburg Borderland in the Adriatic and Its Hinterland

In the first part, the paper addresses imperial clash in the Adriatic and its hinterland, with special focus to patterns of official trade and war economy. Through various concrete examples of trade and piracy in the Adriatic it presents how the the line between a merchant, privateer, corsair and a pirate was a very thin one and how it heavily depended on the state of affairs between the three colliding empires. The famous Uskoks of Senj were a direct product of such interaction, as was their eventual decline. In the second part, based on new archival research, the paper presents two other similar groups on the Venetian-Habsburg-Ottoman Border that lived dominantly from war economy: the Uskoks of Bakar and the Uskoks of the Slunj Captaincy. The first were created due to the private interests of the Zrinski family, who were local magnates, and the second were organised due to the needs of the Habsburg military authorities. They were less known or even unknown in the historiography, although they made considerable impact on the Croatian Military Border. The paper addresses the activity of those two Uskok groups in general and presents some of their special traits in order to offer ground for comparison with Japanese-Chinese case studies on the Wako.

Uskoks, pirates, privateers, corsairs, Adriatic Sea, Senj, Bakar, Slunj, 16th century, Venetian Republik, Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire

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