Wiki entry, indebted to 11th Britannica...latest on uskoks, 1602......who went down in history as pirates............

[Mark Kohut]

p. 697 "energetic new uskok movement".....'recording every last spark appearing in the terrestial night"...." before deliverance into light"....
Cf. T. Monk, of course....and History is the history of light..(paraphrase)

"Obvious implications for the Macedonian Question".......
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the fugitive uskoks returned to Senj where they resumed their acts of piracy. The uskoks would conduct such acts up until 1615 when their piracy went so far as creating an open war between Venice and Austria.
A peace treaty was signed at Madrid in 1617 and it was arranged that the uskoks be disbanded, as well as their ships be destroyed. The pirates and their families were, accordingly, transported to the interior of Croatia, where they gave their name to the "Uskoken Gebirge", a group of mountains on the borders of Carniola now called Žumberak/Gorjanci, as well as White Carniola and Kostel in what is now Slovenia. Their presence has also been traced near Učkain Istria, where such significant family names as Novlian (from Novi Vinodolski), Ottocian (from Otočac) and Clissan (from Klis, older orthography), were noted by Franceschi in 1879.
[edit] List of Uskoks


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