Zagreb - Periodization of Urban Agglomeration Development

U radu su istaknute osnovne osobine razvoja zagrebačke aglomeracije, od svojih prvih početaka krajem 19. stoljeća do suvremenog razdoblja. Naglasak je na promjenama polova populacijske koncentracije i smjerovima ruralno-urbane migracije. Posebna je pažnja usmjerena na južni dio aglomeracije, koji se, sustavno uspoređuje s jezgrom grada i ostalim periurbanim dijelovima aglomeracije.The paper presents essential distinctive traits of Zagreb agglomeration development starting from its first beginnings at the end of the 19th century until contemporary period. The special accent is given to the change in poles of population concentration and direction of rural – urban migration. The southern periurban part of agglomeration is the focus of analysis, but continually compared with city core and other periurban parts of agglomeration

ZBIRKA NOVAK. Mappae Croaticae u Zbirci zemljovida i atlasa Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu

THE NOVAK COLLECTION. Mappae Croaticae in the National and University Library Collection of Maps and Atlases (ZBIRKA NOVAK. Mappae Croaticae u Zbirci zemljovida i atlasa NSK) by Dubravka Mlinarić and Mira Miletić Drder was published in Croatian at the end of 2017 and launched officially on 28 February 2018 at the National and University Library (NUL). The publisher was the Library, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. The book is 319 pages long and is an original scholarly work which presents for the first time one of the most important cartographic collections in Croatia. The authors are top experts and scientists in the history of cartography and nobody knows the Novak Collection better than they do (apart from its owner and author, the late Dr. Drago Novak). Many years of work, some with him during his lifetime, lie behind this edition.Krajem 2017. godine objavljena je te 28. veljače 2018. i promovirana, u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici, knjiga autorica Dubravke Mlinarić i Mire Miletić Drder: ZBIRKA NOVAK. Mappae Croaticae u Zbirci zemljovida i atlasa NSK. Knjiga je izdana u nakladi Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice uz potporu Ministarstva kulture Republike Hrvatske i Ministrarstva znanosti i obrazovanja Republike Hrvatske. Knjiga opsega 319 stranica na hrvatskom jeziku originalno je znanstveno djelo koje po prvi puta javnosti prikazuje jednu od svakako najvažnijih kartografskih zbirki hrvatskih zemalja. Autorice su vrsne stručnjakinje i znanstvenice u području povijesti kartografije, a boljih poznavatelja Zbirke Novak, osim njezina vlasnika i autora, pok. dr. Drage Novaka, doista nema. Iza njih je, zajedno dr. Novakom za njegova života, dugi niz godina rada na Zbirci

Landscape of identities in shared spaces of the borderlands

The Early Modern Croatian borderlands area reflects many social and cultural divides, shared spaces and intersecting identities. It represents an area of multiple contacts of three different imperial traditions in the Early Modern period; Ottoman, Habsburg and Venetian. That was a meeting place of East and West, Christianity and Islam and maritime and continental traditions. Frequent border changes throughout several centuries were followed by migrations and introduction of new (other) social and cultural communities, building and rebuilding the landscapes of multiple identities. Research into past spatial perceptions and images from historical maps is of particular interest in contact and shared spaces, where diverse cultures, religious systems and complex ethnic structures meet. Investigating regional identities in the contact spaces of the borderlands was based primarily on deconstructing maps of the time; tracing a map rhetoric and its symbolic meaning. The westernmost border of the Ottoman Empire with the Habsburg Monarchy was primarily a border between Islam and Christianity. That fact notwithstanding, the Orthodox Christians were also perceived as Others among the dominant population of Roman Catholic affiliation in (Habsburgian) Croatia. The borderlands were more likely a shared space and not so much a divide of different intersecting cultural (religious) identities, that were appreciated and recognized. Landscapes of diverse identities were analyzed and discussed through a number of historical regional examples i.e. Morlacca, Minor Wallachia and Turkish Croatia.Das frühneuzeitliche kroatische Grenzgebiet weist zahlreiche soziale und kulturelle Trennlinien, gemeinsam genutzte Räume und sich überschneidende Identitäten auf. Es ist ein Gebiet vielfältiger Kontakte dreier verschiedener imperialer Traditionen der frühen Neuzeit: des Osmanischen Reichs, der Habsburger Monarchie und Venedigs. Es war ein Treffpunkt von Ost und West, Christentum und Islam und maritimen und kontinentalen Traditionen. Häufige Grenzverschiebungen waren über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg begleitet von Migration und der Einführung neuer (anderer) sozialer und kultureller Gemeinschaften sowie der Entstehung und Veränderung von Landschaften vielfältiger Identitäten. Die Erforschung von früheren Raumwahrnehmungen und von Bildern historischer Karten ist von besonderem Interesse in angrenzenden und gemeinsamen Gebieten, in denen verschiedene Kulturen, religiöse Systeme und komplexe ethnische Strukturen aufeinandertreffen. Die Erforschung regionaler Identitäten in den Kontakträumen von Grenzgebieten wurde vor allem auf der Dekonstruktion zeitgenössischer Landkarten sowie der Analyse der Aussagen von Landkarten und ihrer symbolischen Bedeutung aufgebaut. Die westlichste Grenze zwischen dem Osmanischen Reich und der Habsburger Monarchie war vor allem eine Grenze zwischen Islam und Christentum. Gleichwohl wurden die orthodoxen Christen ebenfalls als Andere innerhalb der dominanten römisch-katholischen (Habsb urg ischen) Bevölkerung in Kroatien betrachtet. Die Grenzgebiete waren wahrscheinlich eher ein gemeinsam genutzter Raum als eine Trennlinie zwischen verschiedenen einander überlagernden kulturellen (religiösen) Identitäten, die geschätzt und anerkannt wurden. Landschaften unterschiedlicher Identitäten wurden anhand einer Reihe historischer Beispiele analysiert und diskutiert, z.B. Morlacca, Walachia Minor und Türkisch-Kroatien

Images of the Croatian Borderlands: Selected Examples of Early Modern Cartography

Although maps have long been central to geographical inquiry, they were rarely treated as text or socially constructed images in general as well as in Croatian historical geography and history of cartography. Looking at maps as images, i.e. social constructions of reality in Harleyan, postmodern terms, the paper discusses the images of the Croatian borderlands in the early modern peri¬od. This is the period of frequent changes of borders between three imperial systems with different religious systems and cultural traditions that have met on the Croatian territory, and consequently reflecteddifferentattitudestowardtheborderlands.Theanalysisismadeon the basis of original maps from Croatian cartographic funds, as well as on a number of published facsimiles, mainly from the 17th and 18th century. It is possible to definetwolevelsofmeaningsoftheanalyzedmaps.Thefirstoneis related to the specificrelationofthestateauthoritiestoborderregion,theirparticularinterests and understanding of its importance. The other one reveals common socio-cultural images of the borderlands