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Stranci u gornjovrbaškom kraju prema matičnim knjigama skopjanskih župa

Stranci se u gornjovrbaški kraj (Uskoplje) intenzivnije naseljavaju od posljednjih desetljeća 18. st. Osim plodne zemlje, izobilja vode i neiscrpnog šumskog bogatstva, doseljavanje je podsticala i oskudica u Dalmaciji a posebice mobilizacija za gradnju komunikacijâ i novačenje u vojsku nakon 1797. g. Imigracija s područja Austrijskog Carstva, odnosno iz Ugarske, bila je motivirana i kršenjem zakonâ te samovoljnim napuštanjem vojničkih dužnosti na granici spram osmanlijskog Vilajeta Bosna. U novoj domovini ti su doseljenici, izuzev više nego rijetkih izuzetaka, postajali kmetovima islamskih feudalnih gospodara. Rijetki su, premda ih je bilo, iz različitih motiva apostatirali od katoličke vjere te prelazili na islam.

Uskoplje, Vilajet Bosna, Dalmacija, Vicenza, Brescia, Bergamo, Giuseppe Bonatti, Antonio Bonatti=Bonata=Bonatović, Francisco Mazoni=Mansoni, Giuseppe Benedetti, Ivan Šimović, Jánosh Tabaçik=Tabaçich=Tabaković, Mihael Ivanović, Ivan Chiuchiek, József Arvat=Horvat=Tomašević=Tomas, István Barz-Benedek=Baroz, József Tipo, Ivan Babić, Pavao Oćiušić=Očušić, György Paroda=Parrada, József Grohos=Groos=Gróós, Jánosh Kovaç, Stjepan Sekelcze=Milinović drukčije Sekeles=Milinović, Ivan Hrušković, Jan Ivanjuk

Foreigners began to settle more intensively in the Vrbas headwaters area in the western part of central Bosnia from the last decades of the 18th century. In addition to the fertile soil, the abundance of water, and inexhaustible forest resources, this settlement was also stimulated by scarcities in Dalmatia, and particularly mobilisation to the intensive construction of communication routes and recruitment into the army after 1797. Immigration from the area under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also motivated by the breaching of laws and arbitrary abandonment of military duties along the border with the Ottoman Vilayet of Bosnia. These settlers in a new land, with only very rare exceptions, became serfs on the estates of the Islamic feudal magnats. Although it was rare, for various reasons some became apostate from the Catholic church and converted to the Muslim faith. Favorable living conditions were a constant reason for immigration into the Vilayet of Bosnia, particularly from more passively developed sections of Dalmatia. The Ottoman feudal magnats favored such immigration, often themselves encouraging it, as their estates could not survive without a viable peasa