Keywords
Dalmatia
flexible identities
mobile communities
Venetian perspective
Venetian-Ottoman border areas
How to Cite
Abstract
The article aims to present the main features of the character of the Morlachs living in the Venetian Dalmatia during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. The research approach focuses on Venetian sources, published and unpublished, therefore the portray of the Morlachs built up in this study is an external one. According to it the Morlachs appear as nomadic people who develop occasional or permanent activities in the Venetian hinterland of Dalmatia. Either they are presented by the sources as shepherds, soldiers, immigrants, merchants, criminals or in many other situations, the Morlachs became agents of coexistence in the permeable area of the Venetian-Ottoman border. This is why, one of the ideas promoted by this study is that the survival of the Morlach`s presence in Dalmatia was assured by the political instability.
Funding
Zagraniczny współpracownik projektu NPRH Wołosi w europejskiej i polskiej przestrzeni kulturo- wej. Migracje – osadnictwo – dziedzictwo kulturowe (Projekt nr 0604/NPRH3/H12/82/2014).
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Collegio. Lettere secrete,
Senato Deliberazioni Mar [SDM],
Senato Deliberazioni Secrete [SDS].
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