A few posts focus on background during the period. These include:
- A basic introduction to this area as part of the AH military frontier
- The satellite images of the area
- Books on the region's history
- A detailed history of Kurjak
- Cliff notes on the book: The Military Border in Croatia, 1740-1881
- Information about the Fortress/Castle at Brinje
- Information about the Serbian Orthodox Tradition: Slava
- Data on overtime population changes
- Information on the fortress (Gradina) in Kurjak
- A new (as of 2017) website about the military border during the Austro-Hungarian period
- A post on their uniforms
I also have several posts using records provided by the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- I describe the Military Museum of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the pictures of soldiers on display there
- I describe the maps from the AH empire and show what these maps tell us about Kurjak during the period.
- I got many records from the Croatian State Archives. I describe my visit, give some tips for visiting the archive, and note the records they had listed.
I have created a new database of about 4,000 individual soldiers in the area around Udbina. I have several posts (that will be rolling out during 2016-2017) that...
- Describe how I put together the database from the Muster Rolls
- List the types of records, and give advice on reading the Muster Rolls and other tips too.
- And gives several posts that analyze the records to learn about various aspects of life and history including... the impact of Hungarian Revolution, information on soldiers when they are discharged, their height (post 1, post 2), family life (post 1, post 2), and more (post 1).
- And here's a list of family names, by village, in the Lika region.
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