Austrian measures for prevention and plague infection control along the border with Ottoman Empire during 18th Century
Abstract
Throughout centuries, policies of states at the space of Western Balkan regions have been shaped in large part in accordance with outbreaks and consequences of plague epidemics. Austrian policy was not out of the line in this context, so the general aspects of dealing in organization of military border with Ottoman Empire were always crucially connected with reactions towards epidemics. Especially in 16th and 17th centuries, Austria battled hard to stop expansion of epidemics that during those times mainly fluxed in from the side of Ottoman Empire. Decisive change came in 18th century. During this period, Austrian reaction to plague outbursts at the space of Southeastern Europe was already product of general rise of sanitary standards in western European regions, where tries for implementation of some of newest qualities in perception of quarantine requirements and medicine applications met with complex aspects of life at turbulent space of military border.
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