LA GRAVEZZA DELLA CARRATADA: OSVRT NA LABINSKU KOMUNU
LA GRAVEZZA DELLA CARRATADA: A REVIEW ON THE COMMUNE OF LABIN

Summary/Abstract: Inner life of Labin commune largely coincided with the life of other communes in the Istrian region in the Late Middle Age and New Age with arriving under Venetian control. Some documents, which form an integral part of archival records stored in the State Archive in Pazin, provide insight into economic conditions on the territory of Labin. Valuable documented material is an extremely important source of data about a multitude of taxes and difficult duties the oppressed population of Labin commune faced, which served the interests of higher government. Transporting wood intended for the Venetian Arsenal or carratada, which greatly burdened poor subjects, was certainly considered one of the biggest work obligations. Endangered peasants tried to liberate themselves from huge liabilities of transporting wood, trying to divert some of the burden on the back of nobleman, who managed to elevate within the commune, coming into the category of privileged. This caused constant disapproval of disadvantaged peasants. From the very beginning of its introduction, carratada has gradually changed its shape, turning from obligations which payers had to perform themselves to money payment for settlement the cost of transportation with a view to an even cargo distribution. The need for charging the increasing amount was expressed in the XVIII century, and even after the fall of the Venetian Republic obligations lost its primary meaning, her name is completely eradicated from the use only until the incidence of Istrian areas under Austrian rule.

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