title: Capi di Morlacchi. Venetian Military Policies During the War for Crete (1645-1669) and the Formation of the Morlacchi Elite.
abstract: This paper deals with a particular case of a much broader problem common to many governments in early modern Eu- rope: the question of how to establish control and integrate semi- autonomous populations settled in frontier zones. In the 17th century, such zones could be found at the fringes of Europe, for example in the Scottish Highlands or at the Crimea, but also in the heart of Europe, by following the Habsburg-Ottoman borderline, from the mountains of Mo- rocco through the Mediterranean Sea,