Novovjekovna naselja papučkoga kraja – pitanje kontinuiteta
Early modern settlements in the Papuk region: a question of continuity

Summary/Abstract: Political turning points, such as big battles, are frequently used to demarcate historical eras, thus implying deeply rooted changes evident in all segments of historical developments. While it is a fact that the arrival of the Ottomans to Slavonia, as well as their departure a century and half later, caused profound changes, it is not obvious that this political milestone should be reflected in the structure of settlements in the Papuk region. Medieval foundations of the settlement hierarchy, which in the Papuk region may be traced back to the thirteenth century, left a deep trace that remained manifest in the Ottoman era. These foundations played a key role in the eighteenth-century formation of the structure of settlements. Orahovica and Voćin, on the northern slopes, and Velika, Kaptol and Kutjevo, on the southern slopes of Papuk, were the most significant settlements across all studied periods. Although their role as the bearers of the function of centrality changed, as well as their population size, legal status and spatial framework, all of these settlements continually, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, marked the history of the Papuk region. It is with this knowledge that we must never cease to reassess received historical knowledge, and to critically open new topics of historical debate.

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