Turkish Croatia

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Turkish Croatia (

geopolitical term which appeared periodically during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars between the late 16th to late 18th century. Invented by Austrian military cartographers, it referred to a border area of Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina located across the Ottoman-Austrian border from the Croatian Military Frontier. It went out of use with the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
.

Location

The name Turkish Croatia was used for the region of

Vrbas in the east, the Sava in the northeast, the Una in the northwest, as well as Dinara mountain in the south, including the Cazinska krajina pocket in the far west. Parts of Croatian regions Lika, Banovina and northern Dalmatia were also mapped as part of "Turkish Croatia" when Ottoman borders went further west.[citation needed
]

History

The term was invented by the

Treaty of Požarevac), and consisted of number of Austrians, Venetians and one Croat, Pavao Ritter Vitezović. It was used more consistently immediately afterwards in maps produced for the part of the territory in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3][4]

In Austro-Hungarian military maps from the 16th to 19th century, the so-called "Turkish Croatia" appeared as a borderland in the

Morlacchia and Terrae desertae.[3]

The term started appearing in colloquial usage among some Austria-Hungarian military and political mapmakers, in correlation to Ottoman retreat and Austria-Hungarian expansion, and subsequently it was produced in military and geostrategic maps.[4] Croatian historian Mladen Ančić has referred to the term within the description of how medieval political and cultural boundaries were destroyed by the Ottoman wars and the establishment of early modern frontiers.[5]

All these various borderland terms vanished by the end of the 18th century or by the beginning of the 19th century, with the change of the complex circumstances that had created them.[3]

In the 19th century, following the conclusion of the

Bosnia and Herzegovina came under a direct rule of the Viennese government, and since 1908 annexation (Bosnian Crisis) became a new Crown land, thus making a term irrelevant in the eyes of its originators.[citation needed
]

In his 1900 work Kratka uputa u prošlost Bosne i Hercegovine, od g. 1463-1850, Safvet-beg Bašagić used the phrase Turska-Hrvatska in reference to Krajina.[6]

From maps it found its way into narrative, peculiar to

Croatian national revival movement, based on a paraphrase of so-called "hrvatske matere zemlje" (lit. 'Croatian mother land') and the "Croatian state right" (hrvatsko državno pravo),[7] similar to the one in Serbia with an expression srpske zemlje (lit. 'Serb lands'), which is at the time propagated by the political organization called the Party of Rights. It was typically exploited for the geopolitical purpose and utterance of territorial ambitions and expansionist aspirations of both Austria-Hungary and later Croatia, via transposition of these "rights" on Bosnia and Herzegovina and its historic territory.[7]

Maps

  • "Turkish Croatia" (Türkisch Croatien) and "Turkish Dalmatia" (Türkisch Dalmatien) on an Austro-Hungarian military map from 1813.
    "Turkish Croatia" (Türkisch Croatien) and "Turkish Dalmatia" (Türkisch Dalmatien) on an Austro-Hungarian military map from 1813.
  • An 1827 map of the Ottoman conquest in Europe - A. Finley ("Croatia" in yellow as part of "Turkey in Europe").
    An 1827 map of the Ottoman conquest in Europe - A. Finley ("Croatia" in yellow as part of "Turkey in Europe").
  • Turkish Croatia (marked by green border line and words "Türkisch Kroatien") on a military map from 1791 made by Austrian cartographer Franz J.J. von Reilly.
    Turkish Croatia (marked by green border line and words "Türkisch Kroatien") on a military map from 1791 made by Austrian cartographer Franz J.J. von Reilly.
  • An 1829 map published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in London marked the westernmost province of the Ottoman Empire in Europe as "Croatia"
    An 1829 map published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in London marked the westernmost province of the Ottoman Empire in Europe as "Croatia"
  • A Vienna newspaper covering the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 showed "Turkish Croatia" (Türkisch Croatien) to the west of the Vrbas river
    A Vienna newspaper covering the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878 showed "Turkish Croatia" (Türkisch Croatien) to the west of the Vrbas river

Legacy

Although on rare occasions, the term was also used in romanticized historiography, as well as in the phantasmagoric politics of "National awakening" and "National integration and homogenization" of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia of the late 19th to early 20th century. In the first half of 20th century with a rise of nationalist fervor, up to the time and establishment of Nazi puppet-state Independent State of Croatia in 1940s, this term appeared sporadically again, concerning the resurrection of a Croatian statehood, journalistic and political propagandistic fieldwork in regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina future by Fran Milobar [hr] and geopolitical contemplation by Ivo Pilar and Filip Lukas, eventually getting politically operationalized by Ante Starčević, and in 1940s, implemented by Frank and Ante Pavelić via occupation and incorporation of entire Bosnia and Herzegovina into Nazi puppet-state, NDH.[citation needed]

In more recent times, with a rise of

Croat-Muslim Federation and its possible confederation with Croatia.[13]

Encouraged with Tuđman's usage of the term as a mean to denigrate and devalue Bosnia and Herzegovina sovereignty and statehood,[4] the term was adopted as part of Croatian far-right nationalist narrative and, although sparsely, as part of their official political discourse, however with little if any impact on mainstream international geopolitics, political geography and historiography, or on academic research for that matter. The term never took hold outside the scope of Croatian political extremism and academic fringes.[citation needed]

References to 'Turkish Croatia' in modern-day Croatian scholarly works include discussions of a lack of an actually centrally positioned geographical space in Croatia since the 15th century.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Vukičić & Gošić 1985, p. 75.
  2. Croatian Encyclopaedia
    . 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Županc & Fuerst-Bjeliš 2007.
  4. ^ a b c Magaš & Žanić 2013, p. 11.
  5. ^ Ančić 2004, p. 339.
  6. ^ Bašagić 1900, p. 28, "Iza maloga odmora naredi velikome veziru Ibrahim paši, da mu pozove begove od Serhata(1), da se s njima posavjetuje o kooperaciji. 1) Turci i narodna pjesma tijem imenom zovu Hrvatsku i Ugarsku; pod imenom: Serhat i Krajina razumijeva se katkada samo Kliški-sandžak i Turska-Hrvatska.".
  7. ^ a b Lovrenović 2013, pp. 104-113 / in pdf 2-11.
  8. ^ "Činjenicama protiv histerije: Hrvatska je u BiH bila i agresor, a za to je kriv Franjo Tuđman". Faktograf.hr (in Croatian). Davorin Rudolf in his book "Stvaranje hrvatske države 1991. – Ministarska sjećanja" (odlomci u feljtonu objavljenom u Jutarnjem listu). 30 November 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  9. ^ a b Rudolf, Davorin (29 January 2017). "Ministarska sjećanja: Misterij razgovora Miloševića i Tuđmana". Feuilleton - excerpts from the book: "Stvaranje hrvatske države 1991. – Ministarska sjećanja". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  10. ^ Marijan, Davor (2004). "Expert Opinion: On the War Connections of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991 – 1995)". Journal of Contemporary History: 252 – via Croatian Institute of History.
  11. ^ Mrduljaš 2008, p. 862.
  12. ISBN 0-300-09125-7
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  13. ^ "CROATIAN PRESIDENT VISITS SARAJEVO". Chicago Tribune. 1994-06-14. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  14. doi:10.15291/geoadria.566
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External links

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