Šesnaestostoljetna hrvatska raseljenička kriza i moderna sociološka terminologija
The Sixteenth-Century Croatian Refugee Crisis and Modern Sociological Terminology

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to draw the attention of historians to the results achieved by modern sociology in the field of human migrations. The example of the sixteenth-century Croatian demographic cataclysm is a good case in which cooperation among scholars of other kindred disciplines might result in high-quality studies of involuntary migrations. The space, for example, as a ground for typology of migrations may to a great extent explain the behavior of Croatian noble displacees during the sixteenth century. Namely, also dependent on the distance (short– or long-distance) of possible accommodation of the family in the area spared by the war was their persistence in the defense of their domicile area. Similarly, an important role regarding the defense of the domicile area was played by the phenomenon of bilocation (active and passive) of a family or the use of chain migration as a means of permanent attempts at survival there. Basic models provided by sociologists are very good for explaining behavior of displaced nobles in the eras of extremely low or enormously high numbers of competitive migrants. The gravitational model, on the other hand, explains the issue of the basic goals of

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