AGRICULTURAL LAND OPTIMUM IN SERBIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Abstract

The paper analyzes the concept of minimal and optimal agricultural land in Serbia defined in legislative texts and its interpretation in Serbian historiography. The basic hypothesis we advocate in the paper is that, regardless of the normative frameworks that changed during the 19th century, the problem of land optimum should be analyzed with respect to regional specificities based on geographical and pedological characteristics of the land, as well as the structure of the family.

Keywords

• Serbia
• agriculture
• 19th century
• land ownership