Vlaches of Istria in the Region of North Dalmatia Regarding Register-Defters of the 16th Century

Abstract

Ovaj rad predstavlja prikaz jedne vlaÅ¡ke skupine iz Istre, doseljene u sjevernu Dalmaciju u prvoj polovici 16. st. o Äemu svjedoÄe osmanski popisni defteri iz 1530, 1540. i 1550. godine. Ova vlaÅ¡ka skupina je izuzetna po tome Å¡to njeno doseljenje u podruÄje koje se tada nalazilo unutar granica Osmanskog Carstva predstavlja obrnut smjer kretanja u odnosu na vlaÅ¡ke migracije tog vremena, a i kasnije. Takoder i sam naÄin bilježenja ovih Vlaha predstavlja izuzetak u diplomatiÄkoj strukturi popisnih deftera. Po svemu ostalom, Äini se, barem po podacima koje ovakvi izvori mogu pružiti, da su ovi Vlasi, tj. njihova organizacija, njihova imena, a naravno i pravni status sasvim sliÄni i isti kao i u ostalih balkanskih Vlaha toga vremena.

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Vlaches of Istria in the region of North Dalmatia regarding register-defters of the 16th century

This paper presents a group Istrian Vlaches who immigrated into North Dalmatia in the first half of the 16th century, and the proof for that can be found in the Ottoman register-defters from 1530, 1540 and 1550. This group of Vlaches is the exception, because their immigration into the territory within the borders of Ottoman Empire is the opposite direction of moving in comparison with the migrations of the other Vlach groups in the same period, as well as in the later period. The way notifying these Vlaches is also the exception regarding the diplomatic structure of register-defters. As for the other characteristics, i.e. organisation, names and legal status, this group seems to be the same as the other groups of Balkan's Vlaches in that period, at least according to the data available in this kind of the historical sources.