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meGreatMigrationofSerbsandtheQuestionof
theSerbianEthnicandReligiousCommunity
intheHabsburgMonarchy
1705),theSerbianOrthodoxcommunitybecameprivilegedintheHabsburgMonar-
A
ttheendofthe17thcentury,bytheedictofEmperorLeopoldI(1658-
chy,whichwasastateofdistinctlyRomanCatholiccharacter.Bytheruler)sedicts,the
communitywassingledoutfromtheestablishedstateandsocialframeworks,suchas
legal,religious,class.TishappenedduringtheGreatTurkishWar(1683-1699),inthe
courseofandimmediatelyafertheSerbianmigrationwave,knownastheGreatMi-
grationofSerbsof1690.Tismigrationwasnotthelargestmigrationinthehistoryof
theSerbianpeople,butitwasoneofthemostsignificantintermsoftheconsequences.
Inthebeginning,theGreatMigrationwasatragicepisodeoftheGreatTurkishWar;
however,theeńectsofthismigrationwereenormousbothforthestatefromwhich
Serbsemigrated-theOttomanEmpire(i.e.thestatetheyfledforfearofretaliation),
andforthestateinwhichtheysettled-theHabsburgMonarchy(i.e.thevariouslands
andprovincesitwascomposedof,especiallytheKingdomofHungary)1.
1ForfurtherdetailsaboutSerbiaandtheBalkansduringtheGreatTurkishWarandaboutthe
migrationofSerbs,see:I.J.ПОПОВИB,ВеликасеобаСрба1690.Србисеlацииплемићи,Београд
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