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peasant population and income integration: the case of the trieste port-town ...
es of death surplus (Graph 9.3). This and a positive migration rate as well
contributed to an annual average population rise of 17 per mil.
After 1818 growth continued with almost the previous pace (16.33 per mil)
until the mid-19th century. In this phase the natural rate was also considera-
bly more positive, despite several crises of mortality in the years of epidemics.
Mortality highly surpassed natality in 1827 and less in 1843 and 1849 (Graph
9.3). The cholera epidemic of 1836 did not have such tragic consequences as in
the city, where it took away 1700 lives (Breschi, Kalc, and Navarra 2001, 109).
Between 1818 and 1846 the population of the karstic district increased by al-
most 60% in number, while from the beginning of the century by 110%.
In the second half of the century the growth continued to be posi-
tive, but considerably lower, as is evident from Table 9.2 and Graph 9.2.
From 1846 to the second modern state census in 1869 (data by villages are
not available for the first census of 1857) the average annual increase was
of 5.3 per mil, while in the following three decades it steadily diminished.
The 1870s saw a general crisis of the agrarian economy. A new phase of fast
growth took place in the first decade of the 20th century with an annual av-
erage rate of 13.9 per mil. The fluctuations observed partly reflect the gen-
eral state of the economy in Austria, but they are especially connected with
the specific development of the city. In the second half of the century, the
economic potentiality of the free port institute, that had allowed the expan-
sion of maritime and the commercial city, started to decline and to show its
inappropriateness in facing the challenges of the Modern Era. That’s why
in 1891 the free port was abolished and transformed into an entreport. This
and the rise of industrialisation led to a new phase of economic expansion
and livelier demographic growth (Breschi, Kalc, and Navarra 2001, 161).
2. The case of Bazovica chaplaincy
The outlined demographic development of the kartsic district can be analy-
sed a bit more in detail in the case of the Bazovica chaplaincy. This included
the villages of Bazovica, Gropada, Padriče and Lipica (the imperial stud
farm) in the eastern part of the karstic district. For the years from the mid-
-17th century to the 1780s, when the area was ruled by the parish of Dolina
and more precisely by its curacy in Gročana, only the birth series is at our
disposal (Montanelli 1905). From 1785 onwards, when the Bazovica church
became a chaplaincy and got its own priest, the complete original data from
registers have been involved. The demographic development of the Bazovi-
ca chaplaincy mostly coincides and is representative of the development of
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es of death surplus (Graph 9.3). This and a positive migration rate as well
contributed to an annual average population rise of 17 per mil.
After 1818 growth continued with almost the previous pace (16.33 per mil)
until the mid-19th century. In this phase the natural rate was also considera-
bly more positive, despite several crises of mortality in the years of epidemics.
Mortality highly surpassed natality in 1827 and less in 1843 and 1849 (Graph
9.3). The cholera epidemic of 1836 did not have such tragic consequences as in
the city, where it took away 1700 lives (Breschi, Kalc, and Navarra 2001, 109).
Between 1818 and 1846 the population of the karstic district increased by al-
most 60% in number, while from the beginning of the century by 110%.
In the second half of the century the growth continued to be posi-
tive, but considerably lower, as is evident from Table 9.2 and Graph 9.2.
From 1846 to the second modern state census in 1869 (data by villages are
not available for the first census of 1857) the average annual increase was
of 5.3 per mil, while in the following three decades it steadily diminished.
The 1870s saw a general crisis of the agrarian economy. A new phase of fast
growth took place in the first decade of the 20th century with an annual av-
erage rate of 13.9 per mil. The fluctuations observed partly reflect the gen-
eral state of the economy in Austria, but they are especially connected with
the specific development of the city. In the second half of the century, the
economic potentiality of the free port institute, that had allowed the expan-
sion of maritime and the commercial city, started to decline and to show its
inappropriateness in facing the challenges of the Modern Era. That’s why
in 1891 the free port was abolished and transformed into an entreport. This
and the rise of industrialisation led to a new phase of economic expansion
and livelier demographic growth (Breschi, Kalc, and Navarra 2001, 161).
2. The case of Bazovica chaplaincy
The outlined demographic development of the kartsic district can be analy-
sed a bit more in detail in the case of the Bazovica chaplaincy. This included
the villages of Bazovica, Gropada, Padriče and Lipica (the imperial stud
farm) in the eastern part of the karstic district. For the years from the mid-
-17th century to the 1780s, when the area was ruled by the parish of Dolina
and more precisely by its curacy in Gročana, only the birth series is at our
disposal (Montanelli 1905). From 1785 onwards, when the Bazovica church
became a chaplaincy and got its own priest, the complete original data from
registers have been involved. The demographic development of the Bazovi-
ca chaplaincy mostly coincides and is representative of the development of
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