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Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary were combined border guard troops who came from the Military Frontier in the Habsburg monarchy. This borderland formed a buffer zone between Christian Europe a
Serbian Grenzer, 1742
New Serbia or Novoserbia was a frontier region of Imperial Russia settled in 1752 by Serbian immigrants from the Military Frontier in the south of the Habsburg monarchy. It was situated in New Russia.
Grenz infantry
…Granichary, members of this Grenz infantry were invited to the Russian Empire where on territory of modern Ukraine they formed historic frontier region of New Serbia. Grenzers were the successors to the irregular troops of Pandurs, which were also raised as a militia by the Habsburgs in the 18th century to defend…
Peter Tekeli, a soldier on the journey from Berlin to the Caucasus. He was buried in "New Serbia."