Digital maps
Croatian and Slavonian Military Frontiers, 1550 – 1570
The map depicts the period between 1550 and 1570. Click on the icon in the upper left corner to open the drop-down menu, which will allow you to select the year. By clicking on the icons featured in the map an interactive window will pop up. The windows contain information on the fortress or station you have selected – garrison size, number of post-horses, and notes on inconsistencies.
You can find the map key bellow the digital map. The key lists the meaning of colours, sources, sites which could not be located, and the number of soldiers whose location was not listed.
- godina/godine = year/years
- utvrda/utvrde = fortress/fortresses
- pošta = postal system
- Slavonska krajina = Slavonian Frontier
- Hrvatska krajina = Croatian Frontier
- pješak/pješaci = infantry
- konjanik/konjanici = cavalry
- izviđač/izviđači = scout
Source: Prema Milan Kruhek, “Krajiške utvrde hrvatskog kraljevstva,” Zagreb, 1995., str. 155.
Note: Earliest recorded payroll, pertains to the Slavonian Frontier only.
Source: Radoslav Lopašić, “Prilozi za poviest Hrvatske XVI. i XVII. vieka iz štajerskoga zemaljskoga arhiva u Gradcu,” Starine JAZU 17 (1885): 151 – 232 (215 – 217).
Notes: This list features only “Slavonske krajine”
- Some places and names which were not listed in the payroll have been reconstructed with the help of the 1556 payroll. However, we cannot know for sure whether the situation was the same in 1555 and 1556.
Location unknown
- 362 cavalrymen serving under various commanders
- 34 infantrymen under vojvoda Brojan
Izvor: Petar Hegedić, Marta Jurković, Nikola Ostojčić i Filip Šimunjak, “Popis isplata vojsci u Hrvatskoj i Slavonskoj krajini u listopadu i studenome 1556, prema dvama registrima: prilog istraživanju rane faze vojnokrajiške povijesti,” Radovi Zavoda za Hrvatsku povijest 51/2 (2019): 345 – 375.
Notes: This list features only “Slavonske krajine”
Source: Prema Nataša Štefanec, “Država ili ne,” Zagreb, 2011., str. 466 – 474.
Notes:
- Post
two stations cannot be located
“Mlätsch derenntschin”
“Grabornigkh” (moguće Hojsić Grad, sudeći prema popisu Andreja Hozjana, “Pošta na slovenskih tleh,” 1997., str. 69.)
- Scouts RED:
za neke “izviđače na primorskoj granici” je točno navedeno gdje se nalaze, pa su ucrtani u kartu
two scouts listed, however no location is given
jedna lokacija nepoznata “Mlätschann, most na Mrežnici”
Fortresses
BLACK: “Stara Kranjska i Hrvatska krajina od mora do Bihaća”
nepoznata jedna utvrda – “Ainersle”
- Location unknown
300 light cavalry (listed under the command of various commanders)
12 paid uskok commanders
“1200 ljudi iz Unutrašnje Austrije” (?)
GOLD: “Nova Kranjska i Hrvatska krajina od Bihaća do Siska”
- Location unknown
400 cavalrymen (100 serving under commander-in-chief, 300 serving under various commanders listed in the payroll)
40 pješaka “kod zapovjednika”
200 pješaka “sa zapovjednicima na pogodnim mjestima i turskim prolazima”
35 scouts
10 post-horses
BLUE: “Štajerska i Slavonska krajina”
- Location unknown
100 cavalrymen serving under commander-in-chief
32 haramija serving under commander-in-chief
Source: Prema Nataša Štefanec, “Država ili ne,” Zagreb, 2011., str. 475 – 477.
Notes: This list features only “Hrvatske krajine”
Fortresses
(S) – Senjska kapetanija – RED
(B) – Bihaćka kapetanija – GREEN
(H) – Hrastovička kapetanija – BLUE
jedan grad nepoznat “Khremickh – Scart Castell”
(O) – Ogulinska kapetanija – YELLOW
ostale utvrde – GREY
Location unknown
606 konjanika “bez mjesta služenja” pod raznim zapovjednicima (poimenice u popisu)
600 plaćenih uskoka “bez mjesta služenja”
27 izviđača na “najisturenijim prolazima i šumama na granici”
43 poštanska konja/pješaka “na krajini, u Kranjskoj i Karstu”
Source: Prema Nataša Štefanec, “Država ili ne,” Zagreb, 2011., str. 488 – 489.
Notes: This list features only “Slavonske krajine”
- Location unknown
200 “oklopljenih štajerskih konjanika”
29 post-horses
600 konjanika “bez utvrđenog mjesta” pod raznim zapovjednicima (poimenice u popisu)
1000 haramija “posvuda po Slavonskoj krajini osim s utvrdnom vojskom”