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Tango01 | 24 Apr 2017 9:17 p.m. PST |
"A key feature of the military border between Austria and the Ottoman Empire was the joint-family household, known as the Zadruga. It was not unique to the military border, but it became an important element of military organisation. The earliest records of the Zadruga go back to the 13th Century. In Serbia it had defensive advantages as well as matching agricultural practice. The classic definition (Karadzic 1827) states: "The Serbs live mainly in Zadrugas. In some houses there are four or five married men, and one-family households are rare. There are many Vajats (sleeping quarters used by individual married couples) as there are married men, and the house itself is only for communal eating and the place in which the old women and men sleep…. Every household has a Staresina (headman) who governs and guides the household."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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