Represalije protiv Podzvizda 1845. godine. Fenomen četovanja i maloga rata u kasnim krajiškim društvima na hrvatsko-bosanskoj granici
Reprisals against Podzvizd, 1845: the phenomena of guerrilla warfare and ‘small war’ in late Military Border societies at the Croatian-Bosnian border

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the battle of Podzvizd that took place on 9 July 1845 and is best known for its role in the biography of Josip Jelačić who, as the commander of the First Banal Regiment, initiated the campaign. Although amply recorded, this event has not been adequately explained and even some of the facts remain unclear. In this article, the battle of Podzvizd is treated primarily as a military history phenomenon and discussed employing the notions of guerrilla warfare (četovanje) and small war, usually used when describing border skirmishes. I am also trying to show that the emergence of this type of warfare on the Croatian-Bosnian border was a reflection of the total socio-economic and political circumstances. For this reason, I approach this war-related event from the standpoint of political history, looking at it through the prism of the relationship between the Viennese and Ottoman courts in the post-Napoleonic period, and also from the perspective of Croatian-Bosnian borderland as a space of specific socio-economic dynamics.

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