The Imotski frontier
Imotski and the Zagora — the Venetian-Ottoman border. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.
1493–1717 — Two hundred years of Ottoman rule, and Catholic parish registers barely survive it. What exists for these years is Franciscan, held by the monasteries, and almost none of it is online.
Whose archive this ground was
| Years | Who held it | Whose archive that means |
|---|---|---|
| 1493–1717 | Ottoman Empire — Sanjak of Klis | no registers survive THE HOLE. Two hundred years of Ottoman rule, and Catholic parish registers barely survive it. What exists for these years is Franciscan, held by the monasteries, and almost none of it is online. |
| 1717–1797 | Republic of Venice — Acquisto Nuovo | Državni arhiv u Zadru · FamilySearch Taken by Venice in 1717. Registers begin here, and effectively nowhere earlier. |
| 1797–1805 | Austria | Državni arhiv u Zadru |
| 1805–1813 | French Illyria | Državni arhiv u Zadru |
| 1814–1918 | Austria — Kingdom of Dalmatia | Državni arhiv u Zadru · FamilySearch |
| 1918–1991 | Yugoslavia | ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives |
| 1991–2026 | Croatia — Split-Dalmatia | ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives |
The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.
See the whole span, 1493–2026, on the map →
The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.
2 places on this ground
2 FamilySearch collections reach this ground
Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.
- Croatia, Church Books, 1516-1994 ↗ 1515–1994 7,007,772 records
- Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1571-1926 ↗ 1570–1926 233,088 records