Military Frontier

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The Military Frontier was a borderland region of the Habsburg Monarchy established as a militarized buffer zone against the Ottoman Empire, inhabited by communities granted land in exchange for military service.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Military Frontier canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf borderland ⓘ
historical region ⓘ
military administrative district ⓘ
appliesToEthnicGroup Croats NERFINISHED ⓘ
Germans NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hungarians NERFINISHED ⓘ
Romanians NERFINISHED ⓘ
Serbs NERFINISHED ⓘ
Vlachs NERFINISHED ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction Habsburg Monarchy NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
country Habsburg Monarchy NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissolved 1881 ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ
function militarized buffer zone against the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
governingBody Habsburg military authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ
grantedRight hereditary land tenure ⓘ
local self-administration in military matters ⓘ
hasPart Banat Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Croatian Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Danube Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Karlovac Generalate NERFINISHED ⓘ
Slavonian Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tisa–Mureș Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Transylvanian Military Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ
Varaždin Generalate NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRole front line in Habsburg–Ottoman wars ⓘ
instrument of Habsburg expansion into former Ottoman lands ⓘ
inception 16th century ⓘ
languageUsed Croatian ⓘ
German ⓘ
Hungarian ⓘ
Serbian ⓘ
legalStatus directly subject to the Habsburg military command ⓘ
locatedIn Balkans ⓘ
Central Europe ⓘ
Southeastern Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
militaryServiceObligation hereditary ⓘ
militaryUnit Grenzers NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature combination of civilian settlement and permanent military readiness ⓘ
special military-civil legal regime ⓘ
partOf Habsburg Monarchy NERFINISHED ⓘ
purpose defense of Habsburg lands against Ottoman incursions ⓘ
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Roman Catholicism ⓘ
socialStructure communities granted land in exchange for military service ⓘ
successor Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kingdom of Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kingdom of Serbia NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor colonization of sparsely populated border areas ⓘ
settlement of refugee populations from Ottoman territories ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gospić → historicalRegion → Military Frontier ⓘ
Habsburg cavalry → recruitmentArea → Military Frontier ⓘ