Abstract: U radu se, polazeći od neobjavljenih i objavljenih osmanskih, mletačkih i habsburških izvora, analizira vlaška skupina poznata u historiografji kao „Vlasi Istre”, koja je u prvoj polovini 16. stoljeća sociodemografski dominirala na prostoru „izvorne Tromeđe” u Hrvatskoj. Riječ je o povratničkoj vlaškoj skupini iz habsburškoga dijela sjeveroistoč- ne Istre i Krasa čiju su demografsku jezgru činili potomci hrvatskih srednjovjekovnih Vlaha, koji su se početkom 16. stoljeća pred osmanskim osvajanjima u više navrata iseljavali prema sjeverozapadu. U sklopu osmanske kolonizacijske politike istimâlet dio tih Vlaha povratio se između 1528. i 1530. u svoja stara boravišta u vilajetu Hrvati, odnosno sandžaku Klis. Radilo se o vlaškoj skupini koja se više od pola stoljeća reverzibilno i ciklično kretala u prostoru imperijalnoga višegraničja, prelazeći u nova i vraćajući se u stara podaništva – osmanska, habsburška i mletačka. Na njihovu primjeru analiziraju se fenomeni koji su proizlazili iz dinamičnih i složenih odnosa na granici kao što su povratne migracije, nestabilna podaništva i ambivalentne lojalnosti. Riječ je o modusima koje je nametao nesiguran život na nemirnoj granici, a podrazumijevao je prilagodljive i kompromisne oblike djelovanja. Koristeći se osmanskim poreznim popisima iz 1528. – 1530., 1540., 1550. i 1574., propituju se njihove društvene, demografske, ekonomske i etnokulturne strukture, kao i uzroci njihova nestajanja kao prepoznatljive skupine u drugoj polovini 16. stoljeća.
Drawing from both unpublished and published Ottoman and Venetian sources, as well as published Habsburg records, this paper analyses the Vlach group know in historiography as the “Vlachs of Istria,” who, in the first half of the 16th century, socio-demographically dominated the area of the “original Triple Confinium” in Croatia. This study focuses on the return migration of a Vlach group from the Habsburg territories of northeastern Istria and Kras, whose demograpchic core consisted of descendants of Croatian medieval Vlachs. These Vlachs had emigrated northwest on several occasions in the early 16th century in response to advancing Ottoman conquests. As part of the Ottoman colonization policy of istimâlet, some of these Vlachs returned between 1528 and 1530 to their former settlements in the Hrvati Vilajet and the Klis Sanjak. This was a Vlach community that, for over half a century, moved reversibly and cyclically within the imperial frontier region, shifting allegiance among the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian rulers. Using their example, the paper examines phenomena arising from the dynamic and complex relations at the border, such as return migrations, unstable subjecthood, and ambivalent loyalties. These conditions reflect the insecure life in the restless frontier region, which required adaptive and compromising strategies. The paper analyses Ottoman tax registers (defters) from 1528-1530, 1540, 1550, and 1574, investigating the social, demographic, economic, and ethno-cultural structures of these Vlach communities, as well as the causes of their eventual disappearance as a distinct group community in the second half of the 16th century.
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