Zapisi o doseljenim sarajevskim katolicima u najstarijoj brodskoj matici (1701.-1735.)
Records about Catholic settlers from Sarajevo in Brod’s oldest registry (1701-1735)

Summary/Abstract: The emigration of Bosnian Catholic Croats to Slavonia in the 17th century has been the subject of many researches in the past, but some of the issues still remain open. The Great Turkish War (1683-1699) was a turning point not only in the way it shaped the geopolitical picture of South East Europe, but also in the way it shaped the ethnic picture all the way from Hungary to the Adriatic Sea. Eugene of Savoy’s Bosnian campaign of 1697 is one of the most famous episodes from this war. We know that Prince Eugene brought tens of thousands of Catholics and Orthodox Church members from Bosnia to Slavonia on this campaign. We also know that the imperial armies entered Sarajevo during this campaign. The widely known facts about the exodus of a large number of Catholics from Bosnia at the time point to the conclusion that most Catholics living in Sarajevo probably also departed. Historical research over the past few decades discovered that some of the Catholics from Sarajevo settled in Požega. This paper is going to show that even more of them settled in Brod on the Sava, which is proven by the records we encounter in Brod’s oldest registry from the Parish of the Holy Trinity (1701-1735). The records reveal the identity of many former residents of Sarajevo, their intermarriages, and godfather and other connections. Such an analysis also enables us to define their position in Brod’s civil life in the first half of the 19th century.

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