To browse Academia. The paper presents the area between two towns, Maribor and Ptuj, located on the right bank of the river Drava during the late 17th century until the end of the 18th century. Data obtained from the oldest preserved parish registers of the Dravsko polje area i. All registers are from the 17th century. The paper addresses the beginnings of rafting on the Drava river and also the interrelated? This part of the Drava stream used to represent the boundary between the dominions Vurberk on the left bank and Ravno polje on the right bank.
Arrangements between the dominions, concluded in a certain period, soon became invalid due to the constant changes of the riverbed. Cultivation of the soil near the river required special agreements on both sides. The lack of proper arrangements among the owners of the land soon led to the increasing disputes.
The peasants of dominion Ravno polje killed him on 31 May The murder happened after count Georg and his subjects wanted to remove the dyke of Loka creek because it supposedly limited his rights for fishing and hunting. Keywords: Drava river, Drava field, parish registers, rafting, Herberstein s , Styria, Habsburg Monarchy, early modern period. Hrvoje Petric. This paper shows an interrelation between man and his environment, on the Habsburg-Ottoman imperial borders in early modern period.
As an example, we researched borderline areas alongside Drava River on the Habsburg Monarchy side of the border. The center of this region is area surrounding the free royal town of Koprivnica, being the Military Frontier stronghold and administrative seat at the same time. This Β»case studΒ«y is an example of a man and his environment in border territory oin early modern period.
Chronology data focus on 16th and 17th century, when this area was a frontier to both the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. The paper focuses on borderline character, which influenced both man and his environment.
