VODA U HRVATSKIM RANOSREDNJOVJEKOVNIM ISPRAVAMA
WATER IN THE CROATIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with dates from Croatian early medieval diplomas that could tell us something about water and the rest of contemporary natural environment. Dates from diplomas have been supplemented with the results Croatian and other (Mediterranean) historiographies that deal with early medieval environmental problems, especially water. Modern dates about water, from researched area were also important. Dates about water in Croatian early medieval diplomas are limited almost completely in second half of eleventh century and in the areas of Kvarner, North and Middle Dalmatia. The most important Croatian early medieval settlements ware in countryside with plenty of water sources. These sources became very early private properties. The especially important was rare running water and with running water connected watermills, its role as boundaries between land possessions and the »tool« that directed land routs. In the researched areas especially common were marshes, that were for early medieval man, friendly environment.

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