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On the basis of archival sources, the article brings for the first time
information on the foundation of Vladislavci, a settlement founded in
the first half of the nineteenth century. The article is primarily based
on the scarcely extant unpublished sources from the archival series of
the Lordship of Čepin, parish registers of birth, marriage and death
from the Vladislavci for the period from 1848 to 1859, the first extant
cadastral maps that depict Vladislavce, but also on previous Hungarian
and Croatian scholarship that at least incidentally mentions
Vladislavce.
Since the village was colonized in the first half of the nineteenth
century, that is before than more intense colonization of the Hungarian
population in the area of Slavonia of the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich
period started, meagre Croatian historiography which incidentally
mentioned the settlement, generally incorrectly identified it. On the
other hand, neither Hungarian historiography correctly determined the
period of the colonization of the settlement, but saw it as “an
authentic Hungarian settlement from the time of the Árpádians.” The
particularity of the Vladislavci as a village of Eastern Slavonia which
was almost exclusively inhabited by the Hungarians is primarily in that,
that it cannot be classified as the so-called Hungarian pre-settlements
that existed in its immediate surroundings and that were established in
the Middle Ages (as is the case with Hrastin/Haraszti or Laslovo/Szent
László), nor as those settlements that were colonised by the Hungarian
population in the Ausgleich period.
The work employs several methods: onomastical method, while analysing
toponyms on cadastral maps and antroponyms in parish records;
statistical method in analysing demographical data; comparative method
when placing Vladislavci in relations to surrounding settlements of the
district of Osijek and finally, descriptive method when presenting other
facts and conclusions. The research questions are: (1) when was the
settlement founded and under which circumstances; (2) how many
households and inhabitants did the village have in the mid-nineteenth
century and (3) what were the demographical trends in that period.
By analysing parish records of born, married and dead, basic demographic
trends in the mid-nineteenth century are given, the census based on the
house-numbers is reconstituted, and the first cadastral maps of the
settlement is analysed for onomastic interpretation of available
antroponyms and toponyms. Under considerations are also issues such as
which were the most frequent personal names given to children at birth,
the average age of marriage, average age and causes of death in
Vladislavci from 1848 to 1859.
