Gyökerek • A Dráva Múzeum tanulmánykötete, 2006
Mészáros Ádám: Horvátok és magyarok a 18. századi Barcson
Mészáros Ádám: Horvátok és magyarok a 18. századi Barcson ÁDÁM MÉSZÁROS CROATIANS AND HUNGARIANS IN BARCS IN THE 18TH CENTURY SUMMARY The wars of the Turkish period and the military events for hounding out the Turkish in the late 17 th century forced the population to escape and wandering in the most part of Somogy county next to the riverbanks of Drava. After the fightings a lot of people moved back to the deserted villages but production only started very slowly in the fields which grew wild. The landowners tried to grow the power of production of the villages with allowances and organized settlements. The Bares of 1690s was sparsely populated but it started to grow very slowly. Bares right from the beginning was a mixed-populated, HungarianCroatian village right. To the sparsely populated region of the river Drava a lot of serf families arrived from the area of Slavonia which lays on the southern part of Drava. Most of the serf families were native Slavonians who spoke kaj dialect. With them other serf families arrived who were „Sokac" agricultural workers with Bosnian origin, they spoke the Croatian ŝto dialect. The Hungarian agricultural workers came to Bares from different villages of Somogy county. Some family names show us the different places of origin: Darány, Hedrehely, Szentlászló in Hungary and Buŝetina, Kalinovac, Turanovac in Croatia - Slavonia. In the history of Bares the socage was an important milestone, when the individual taxation took the places of community taxation. At the time of the socages in 1767 the language of the village was definitely Croatian, because from 1739 to 1740 there lived a mostly Slavonian serf population in the village. From the 1770 s Bares developed slowly but regularly. Bares, because of its favourable geographical situation and the right for marketing which was gained in 1797 with the title of market-town (oppidum) attracted many new inhabitants. Most of the growth happened in the second part of 1790 and it is clearly connected to the development of the village into a market-town. In 1767 there were 48 serf families with houses, and in 1794 only two more houses could be found on the map of Bares. Two years after gaining the title of market-town 70 houses were there on the detailed map of the settlement. In 1803 86 families were counted in Bares The amount of its population grew a lot and the geographical borders of the town were shifted from its original place. 63
