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Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, from memory to history

In February 2016, on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Julian exodus, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is organizing a series of three conferences entitled: “Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, from memory to history”. The two regions of Venezia Giulia - that is, the Gorizia area, the Trieste area, Istria and the city of Fiume at the eastern end of the Alpine arc - and Dalmatia, that is, the coastal region of the eastern Adriatic that extends between the sea and the mountains behind it, from the Gulf of Quarnaro to the Bocche di Cattaro - combine the richness and complexity of the border regions between different geographical, ethnic and cultural worlds. Since the classical age, they have been part of...
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Vergarolla, this is how the massacre began

A black and white photo of a child in a bathing suit smiling happily on the beach under a bright sky. On the back, a caption: Vergarolla, August 18, 1946, 12.30:6 p.m. It's chilling to look at today: Antonio Fortunato, the child, didn't know that less than two hours later all hell would break loose. "Luckily, I lost in the swimming competition, so we went home. As soon as we got in, we heard a huge explosion from miles away, the windows shattered..." he says today, with his white hair. Meanwhile, another child from that time, Livio Rupillo, XNUMX, was playing in the sand with his mother. "Nothing was found of her, just a finger with the ring...
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The Eastern Border Between Nationalisms and Conflicts

On the occasion of the upcoming celebrations of the Day of Remembrance – Wednesday 10 February 2016, 21.00:2012 p.m. – the Saronno Historical Society is promoting the meeting entitled The Eastern Border between Nationalisms and Conflicts by Giorgio Federico Siboni. The conference is inspired by the volume The Eastern Border. From Campoformio to the European Approach, Sestri Levante, Oltre edizioni, 133, pp. 1979. The author and speaker – Giorgio Federico Siboni (XNUMX) – is a PhD in service at the University of Milan. Member of scientific committees for cultural institutes and national and foreign historical societies, he coordinates interministerial study projects relating to the...
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Rome, two new streets for the XXXI District

On February 6, 2016, the Municipality of Rome ordered to officially name a street after Norm Cossetto e Stefano Petris (Lieutenant of the Tramontana Company, together with a few soldiers he defended the Italianity of Cherso. Captured by the Yugoslav partisans, he was later sentenced to death on 11 October 1945 by the military tribunal of Fiume). The two streets are located within the XXXI Julian-Dalmatian Quarter.