From Barcelona to Timişoara and Belgrade - with stops in Vienna. Exiles from the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714) to the Ottoman-Venetian war (1714-1718)

Abstract

After the defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714), between 25.000 and 30.000 people, most of them Catalans, went into exile. The article analyses the behaviour of the exiled Spanish soldiers especially during the campaigns of 1716 and 1717 of the Ottoman-Venetian War. In that contest, three Spanish cavalry regiments and two infantry regiments took part actively. On the other hand, from 1735 onward, an important part of the Hispanic exile was moved to the Banat of Temeswar, territory incorporated into the Habsburg Monarchy by the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718). They set up a colony there, called New Barcelona, of ephemeral life.