THE ARCHIVE OF THE BRLIĆ FAMILY

The archive of the Brlić family in Slavonski Brod represents a cultural heritage created by a developed sense on the part of seven generations of a family in which documents signiÞ cant for the family, their native region and the entire nation were collected over almost three hundred years. The Archive holds material created in the period between 1730 and 2000, kept in 119 boxes. The basis of the holdings is correspondence between family members with persons outside the family (some 3000 letters), correspondence between individual family members, documents of importance for the family and individual family members (contracts of sale and purchase, bequests, land register records, personal documents: school diplomas, lecture notes, manuscripts, passports), collections of old documents and manuscripts