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PART A - ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
1. Identity and Location
2. Legal Information
3. Identification
5. Assessment
against the Selection Criteria
6. Consultation
7. Nominator
PART B - SUBSIDIARY INFORMATION
8. Assessment of Risk
9. Preservation Assessment
1.1 Name of documentary heritage
Archival documents from the records group named UPM (The documents of the Venetian Republic – Atti del Proveditore estraordinario di Cattaro et Albania con la Sopraintendenza di Castel-Nuovo, 1648-1797.
1.2 Country: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1.3 State, province or region: The Republic of Montenegro
1.4 Address: State Archives of Montenegro – The Historical Archives of Kotor, 85330 Kotor, Njegoseva street 208.
1.5 Name of institution: State Archives of Montenegro –
The Historical Archives of Kotor
2.1 Owner: State Archives of Montenegro – The Historical Archives of Kotor (Jelena Antovic, assistant director of the State Archives of Montenegro – the director of the Historical Archives of Kotor, 85330 Kotor, Njegoseva street 208, tel. fax: 00381/82 14948
2.2 Custodian: Archivist (Snezana Pejovic, 85330 Kotor, Njegoseva street 208, tel. fax: 00381/82 16284)
2.3 Legal Status:
a) category of ownership: Property of the state
b) details of legal and administrative provisions for the preservation of the documentary heritage:
The Law on archival activity (Gazette of the Republic of Montenegro, number 25/92)
c) accessibility: Each Workday, except Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
d) copyright status: The documents are of historical character without copyrights
2.4 Responsible administration:
a) details should be given of the mechanism or organization already
established, or to be established, to ensure the proper management of the
documentary heritage. The Historical Archives of Kotor works in accordance
to the law or archival activity (Gazette of the Republic of Montenegro,
number 25/92)
3.1. Description and inventory
The description and inventory of the said property are given in the "Guide through archival documents together with summary lists of museum and church records groups and collections" (The Historical Archives of Kotor, Kotor, 1977).
3.2. Bibliographic/Registration details: The same 3.1.
3.3. Visual documentation, if appropriate
Chronological selection of some outstanding examples of the said property, including original literary articles, original drawings of ships, original portraits of sea captains, original vow-plates done by seamen, that is all that has something to do with the resistance to the piracy of the XVII and XVIII century. There is also a baroque drawing of the most prosperous coastal settlement in the Bay of Kotor, Perast, drawn by a geographer Coronelli in the XVII century. Each original document is preceded by its summary.
3.4 History: During the 16th through the 18th centuries, the coastal settlements of Boka Kotorska (especially Perast, Dobrota and Prcanj) with a few hundred of small sailing-ships are actively involved in liberating the Mediterranean and the Adriatic area from pirate devastation from the north-eastern centre ("Barbaria"). The difficulties in the Adriatic were even greater since 1571 when the part of pirates were moved to Ulcinj after seizing Bar and Ulcinj by the Turks; thus this town became the "branch office" of Mediterranean piratry for the Adriatic. There are series of documents in the Historical Archive of Kotor and the archives of Perast and Dobrota about that.
3.5 Bibliography: Main references: Alberto Sacerdoti, "Africa overo Barbaria", relazione al Doge di Venezia surre reggenze di Algeri e di Tunisi: Del Dragomanno Giovanni Battista Salvago (1625), Padova 1937; gligor Stanojevic, Materials for the History of Perast, Spomenik SCAN CV, Belgrade 1956, programme. 57; Ignjatije Zlokovic: On Losses of Perast(s Ships in Battles against pirates, Annual Journal of Maritime Museum Kotor III 1955; Milos Milosevic, Venetian sources about the devastation of Perast in 1624 and the organization of north African pirate, GPMK XXV, Kotor 1977.
3.6 Names, qualifications and contact details of independent people...
Dr. Milos Milosevic, 85330 Kotor, Dobrota 85, Scientific Advisor. Telephone:
082/16110.
5. Assessment against the Selection Criteria
5.1 Assessment of the documentary heritage against each criterion
Criterion 1 - Influence: Documents about the struggle for free flow of goods in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, witness the undoubted impact of the struggle against piracy on world history of 17th and 18th century.
Criterion 2 - Time: In a period when piracy was blooming (17th-18th century), the issue of merchandise flow had an universal economic and other influence.
Criterion 3 - Place: This archive documentation also extends thorough information on Bay of Kotor region, from which the seamen sailing under canvas gave their contribution to the struggle against the Mediterranean piracy.
Criterion 4 - people: Marine merchants of the 17th and 18th century had to connect their marine-merchant affairs with war action. Every merchant ship had smaller canons and guns, which as needed were transformed into war ships.
Criterion 5 - Subject/theme: Official Venetian archives document the theme with descriptions of various battles against pirates.
Criterion 6 - Form and style: The style of the documents is mainly the authentic style of official Venetian authorities about the events that happened, or the awards granted for that reason.
Criterion 7 - Social value: The social value is undoubtedly great, bearing in mind that this is the universally important area of the Mediterranean, where piracy intended to break the economic and cultural communication.
5.3 Evaluation of the authenticity: The authenticity of the documents is not to be doubted, as these are the official documents of the representatives of Venetian authorities, extraordinary representative (Proveditore estraordinario).
5.4 Assessment of rarity: Sometimes, the
documents on the same events are found in the archives of Zadar and Venice,
since the higher instances of the Venetian Republic were located there.
6.1 Details of the consultation: As for
the need for consultation regarding the nomination, the owner is the State
Archives of Montenegro in Cetinje and the Historical Archives of Kotor.
7.1 Name: The nominator is the Historical Archives of Kotor, Jelena Antovic, Assistant Director in the State Archives of Montenegro, Head of Historical Archives of Kotor.
7.2 Relationship to documentary heritage: Associate Archivist, Jovicevic Miodrag
7.4 Contact details: Tel. 082/16284 ; facsimile:
082/14948
PART B - SUBSIDIARY INFORMATION
Political climate : sound
Environmental conditions: favourable
Physical conditions: well equipped archive
However, the investigators and scientific workers are not numerous.
The present physical condition of the documents is sound. The proposed group of documents for nomination has an extraordinary value. After the disintegration of the Venetian Republic (1917), that group was kept in Dalmatia center of the administration in the period of Austrian authority, Zadar. Following the establishment of the Historical Archives of Kotor (1949), the documents were given to Kotor. From the archivist standpoint, the materials were kept correctly.
Current preservation policy follows the archival professional norms.
The person in charge of preservation is Jovicevic Miodrag, professional
advisor.