Православно становништво Далмације према статистичкој табели из средине 19. века
Orthodox population in Dalmatia, according to the statistical table from the middle of the 19 th century

Summary/Abstract: The work is based on a chronologically undetermined table of parishes and population of the Dalmatian Episcopate, probably dating back to the middle of the 19th century. The table lists parishes, the number of houses and population, number of legitimate and illegitimate births of children, number of married, deceased, settled and emigrated inhabitants in each of the parishes. This table provides an opportunity to form a demographic picture of the Orthodox population in the middle of the 19th century, as well as to compare the obtained data in with the similar ones in the entire Dalmatia. The Orthodox population was concentrated in the interior of the north and central Austrian province of Dalmatia, as well as in the Boka Kotorska. The Dalmatian eparchy belonged to the parish of Peroj in Istria, which had several hundred inhabitants. At the time of the creation of the table there were 117 parishes in the Diocese, where 77,588 Orthodox Serbs lived, which made up about a fifth of the total number of inhabitants of the Austrian Dalmatia. The Serbian Orthodox population was the most numerous in the Knin and Kotor municipalities. Regarding the gender structure, the male population was several times more numerous than the female population. Although the population of Dalmatia was constantly growing in the first half of the 19th century, the mortality rate was higher than birth rate at the time, and the Orthodox population recorded a negative population growth, especiallyin northern Dalmatia. Inspite of everything, the Dalmatians belonged to the most long-lived inhabitants of the Habsburg Monarchy, which is in all likelihood due to the surrounding nature than to the adequate health care. In terms of marriages, about three quarters of the married people married once, and about a quarter remarried. When it comes to the migrations, the majority of the parishioners who emigrated and immigrated were women. During the years of the famine, there were frequent migrations of the Orthodox families to the western parts of Bosnia. The demographic conditions differed in the northern and southern parts of the Dalmatian diocese. The parishes of the northern and central Dalmatia were less populated, in general but more populated by the Orthodox population,with more than a thousand parishioners on average. Also, in these parts, the households were more numerous than in southern areas. At the time of the creation of the table, the fertility rate was relatively even in all parts of the Diocese, but the mortality was higher in the north, which was also reflected in a negative population growth. The general rate of the nuptiality is also even. Immigration cases in the parishes are similar, but more people migrated out of the northern areas.

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