MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS OF SERBIAN NATION IN BOSNIA DURING THE GREAT VIENNA WAR

Abstract

At the time of the Great Vienna War (1683-1699) there were large migration flows in the Balkans. The paper explains the migrations of the Orthodox (Serbian) and the Catholic population from Bosnia, which remained under the Turkish rule, to the newly liberated areas of Croatia and Slavonia. If the Bosnian migrations from this period are analzyed as a separate segment, it could be concluded that several tens of thousands of the Orthodox and Catholics migrated from Bosnia to Croatia and Slavonia, what largely resulted in filling this empty territory, strengthening the defensive power of the Habsburg Monarchy in relation to Turkey.