Ličani doseljeni na vinkovačko područje
Colonists from Lika to the Area of Vinkovci

Summary/Abstract: The area of Vinkovci, as well as the whole of Eastern Croatia, after the departure of Turks from these regions - in late 17th century, and until the end of the forties of the 20th century, but later as well - was colonized by the population from different regions. Roman Catholic population was mostly colonized from Dalmatia, Lika, Gorski Kotar, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Zagorje, Bačka and Kordun. For the people from Lika it is said that they are our most persevering and the best colonists, and that they are everywhere - wherever there was the opportunity to settle down. Numerous movements from Lika occurred at the very beginning of the 18th century, after the rebellion in Lika and great movements in border-lands of Lika, Otočac and Ogulin in 1714. They were attracted to the new regions by the rumors spread about the fertility and abundance of arable land suitable for settlement. In the early part of the 19th century, Military Border authorities, where there were the appropriate conditions, officially associated a number of newly colonized families from Lika with elder families without children, or with those with small number of children (i.e., in Andrijaševci and Ivankovo) - so the colonists as a rule lost their surnames and took over the new ones. The colonists from Lika brought to the new environment ikavian dialect with new accentuation. The colonists of previous movements • had fully assimilated in time with the indigenous population, accepting their speech, way of living and culture as their own traditional characteristics. A large number of such families make up the indigenous population of the area of Vinkovci with vague remembrance of their origin and old home-land. The awareness of the old home-land and origin is more present with the colonists after 1918 and 1945.

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