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CROATIA 2: LUDWIG VON GAJ OPPOSES CROATIA’S HUNGARIAN HERITAGE CROATIA 2: LUDWIG VON GAJ OPPOSES CROATIA’S HUNGARIAN HERITAGE Ivo Vukcevich Copyright © 2013 by Ivo Vukcevich. Library of Congress Control Number: Pending ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4836-5222-1 Softcover 978-1-4836-5221-4 Ebook 978-1-4836-5223-8 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This book was printed in the United States of America. Rev. date: 06/12/2013 To order additional copies of this book, contact: Xlibris Corporation 1-888-795-4274 www.Xlibris.com [email protected] 125238 CONTENTS Introduction ..........................................................................................11 1. Old World Croatia—Lower Pannonia-Slavonia ..............................15 2. Slovins Are Croats Are Slovins ........................................................18 3. Morphing Into Croatia ...................................................................21 4. Nostrum Banatum: Slavonia ..........................................................26 5. Great Estates ..................................................................................32 6. Campus Zagrabiensis .....................................................................36 7. Leading Serb Lineages ....................................................................39 8. Krbava Battle, 1493 ........................................................................43 9. Battle Of Mohacs, 1526 .................................................................47 10. Burgenland .....................................................................................50 11. Quien As Mas Macho? ...................................................................54 12. Serbiani Sono L’antemurale Contra Turchi Della Croatia Et Ungaria ......................................................................................59 13. Zumberak Serbs: Rasciani Seu Serviani At Que Valahi, Quos Vulgo Zrbski Vocant .............................................................66 14. Ottoman Slavonia ..........................................................................70 15. Habsburg Slavonia .........................................................................75 16. Mihajlovici .....................................................................................78 17. Civil And Military Affairs ...............................................................84 18. Hrvatski Bog German ....................................................................90 19. Few [Distinguished] Croats In Croatia, Fewer In Slavonia ..............93 20. Defining Svabo-Folksdojcer-Uber Croat Moments .......................100 21. Hungary-Croatia Relations 1500-1800 ........................................103 Jednim Glasim Govore Sva Gospoda, Plemstvo, I Puk 22. Friar George Utjesenovic ..............................................................106 You Alone Among The Leaders Of Our Church 23. Ban Gyorgy Zrinyi: Ne Banstd A Magyart! ...................................109 24. Ignat Martinovics .........................................................................114 Status Regni Hugariae, Respublica Hungarica 25. Andras Dugonics ..........................................................................118 Propheten Der Madjaromania 26. Eight Glorious CenturIes Pod Okrilje Ugarske Krune ..................122 27. Hell On Earth ..............................................................................124 28. Plantation Slaves ..........................................................................132 29. An Insult To Call A Croat A Croat ...............................................136 Za Njih Bila Tada I Uvreda Kad Bi Ih Netko Nazivao Hrvatima 30. Hungarians By Choice And Will ..................................................141 Nesumnjivo Je, Da Bi Se Hrvati Bili Svojevoljno Pomadjarili 31. Croatia-Hungary Kingdom ..........................................................143 32. Varazdin Krajina ...........................................................................151 33. Croatia—Hungarian System ........................................................158 34. Croatia—Austrian System ............................................................164 35. Croatia—Ljubeci Skut System ......................................................170 36. Johann And Julieanne ...................................................................173 37. Gays Of Gayterstein .....................................................................176 38. Young Slovak Apothecary .............................................................178 39. A Mother Named LjuboslaVa Kovac ............................................180 40. No Can Say In Croatian ...............................................................182 Nije Poneo Ni U Gimnaziju Neko Poznavanje Hrvatske Jezika 41. A Boy Nicknamed ‘Russian’ .........................................................185 42. A Natural Instinct Guarded Me Against Any Foreign Language ...188 43. Real Varazdin 1821-1826 .............................................................191 44. Imagined Zagreb—Out Of Thin Air ............................................194 45. Professor Fran Ilesic ......................................................................197 46. Fratres Ignorante Aurelius Hoermann, Librorum Censor .............199 47. University Of Vienna November 1826 To December 1826 ..........205 48. Validating The Von—Nervous Breakdown ...................................207 49. Graz ~ 1827-1829 ........................................................................211 50. Petranovic, Preradovic, Jarnevic ....................................................216 51. Les Provinces ILlirienes ................................................................224 52. Karageorge’s Illyria .......................................................................228 53. Mamula, Miokovic, Budisalvjevic .................................................231 54. Our Croat And Serb Nation .........................................................233 55. Oblast Brankovica—Despot Djurad Brankovic ............................236 56. Djordje Brankovic—Despot Ilirika ...............................................240 Samoderzavni Zemlji Slavenoserbskoj I Vsego Ilirika 57. Liberation Of Orthodox Christians ..............................................242 58. Despopten Von Servien ................................................................246 Universorum Illyrici Regnorum Imperio 59. Greater Austria, Greater Rome .....................................................249 60. Endangers The Catholic Interest ..................................................254 61. Endangers The Imperial Interest ...................................................256 62. Serb Privileges ..............................................................................261 63. Paul Ritter [Von Vrendorf] ...........................................................263 64. Suck-Up Extraordinaire ................................................................269 65. Extinguish Hungary .....................................................................275 Le Gran Brankovic Farce A La Croatie 66. Austria Maximus, Hungaria Minimus ..........................................279 67. Scoundrel Extraordinaire—Persona Non Grata ............................286 n1 Gusars/Hussars .............................................................................289 n2 Regni Rassie Despotus Et Dominus Servie ...................................294 n3 Tsar Jovan Nenad .........................................................................302 n4 Defense Of Austria For Reasons Of Faith And Honor ..................306 n5 Defense Of Hungary ....................................................................310 n6 Defense Of Venice ........................................................................314 n7 Crusades, Crusades, Crusades .......................................................322 n8 Bosnia ..........................................................................................324 n9 Kill Them All; God Will Look After His Own .............................330 n10 Lesser Evil ....................................................................................332 n11 Greater Evil—Unparalleled Fanaticism, Barbarism .......................341 Bibliography ........................................................................................347 DEDICATION Vjera Stevovich Vukcevich INTRODUCTION In times past even as late as 300-400 years ago, there were no Croats in and around Zagreb, Krizevci, Sisak, Pozega etc, or generally speaking, in Croatia. U staro vrijeme, i jos pred 300 do 400 godine nije oko Zagreba, Krizevci, Siska, Pozege itd. tj. uopce u Hrvatskoj . u cijeloj toj zemlji nije bilo nijednoga Hrvata (Antun Radic, 1903). The Serbs are not settling in Croatia out of fear of any kind, but for reasons of faith and honor, and out of their deep and true Christian faith, and innate opposition to Turkish tyranny (General Baron Herbenstein, 1598). Serbiani, Serviani, Rascianos, Ukcocos, Valachos, Morlachos, e di lingua Illirica, Rascianicam linguam sono l’antemurale contra Turchi della Croatia, et Ungaria (Vatican, 1621). Croatia’s estates should thank God for the Serbs and the formation of a Serb defensive perimeter around Croatia
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