Military Frontier

area in the north-west of present-day Croatia and south-eastern Slovenia, existing between 1460 and 1881 along the most exposed section of the Austro-Ottoman border as a defence against Turkish invasions

ethnic group

1716 battle

Habsburg territory (1553–1881)

thumb|250px|Morlach peasant from the Split, Croatia|Split region (of modern [[Croatia). Théodore Valerio (1819–1879), 1864.]]

Type of light infantry, 18th century

Austro-Hungarian border region

political history of Croatia

military unit

thumb|Illustration of a group of Seressaner during the 1848 Revolutions. The Seressaner (, , ) were an Habsburg military police unit in Lika, Croatian Military Frontier. The name is derived from Saracens ("tent dwellers").

Šajkaši (In Serbian, , ) refers to the river flotilla troops guarding the Danube and Sava, and especially, the Port of Belgrade, against the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to the 19th century. During that period, the rivers were natural borders of the Kingdom of Hungary and Habsburg monarchy with the Ottoman Empire, part of the Military Frontier. The troops were composed of ethnic Serbs, who had special military status. Their name derives from the small wooden boat known as chaika (šajka, tschaiken), a type of galley.

states and territories established in 1762

Unit of Habsburg light infantry, 1740s