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armed conflicts between governmental forces and insurgents, also causing casualties. 43

43 All this happened during a deep economic crisis in many rural areas of Croatia and the Krajina, which had
already lasted for several years. This crisis also resulted in a high emigration movement. In the decade
between 1900 and 1910 more than six percent of the Orthodox and about six percent of the Catholic popula-
tion left the country. Most of them emigrated to America. One of the main reasons for the miserable situation
in many parts of the Krajina was the decay of the patriarchal domestic communities, the zadrugas, which
set in with the dissolution of the Military Frontier. This gradually resulted in a complete change of the social
and familiar structures in the villages and as a consequence in a fragmentation of the land property. See
Claudia Reichl-Ham, Die Türkenherrschaft 1389 – 1878, chapter in Militäroperationen und Partisanenkampf
in Südosteuropa (= Truppendienst Handbuch, Vienna 2009), 118.