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Tanacko Lazić before Maria Theresa

Stapar1750 — 1770

A founding legend takes one man from Stapar directly before the empress to decide the village’s fate.

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In local tradition Tanacko Lazić becomes the man who speaks for the settlers before Maria Theresa. The meeting gives the village’s foundation one clear scene and one negotiator, although the historical process was probably less simple. The story matters because the community remembers a complex administrative act through a face and a conversation.

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