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Identity Beyond Borders: Generations Meet for a New Adriatic Frontier
The history of the Adriatic border is marked by profound fractures, collective tragedies, and torn identities. But today, it is a history that demands to be reinterpreted as a space for dialogue, responsibility, and a shared future. The collective work "Identity Beyond Borders: Generations Compared for a New Adriatic Border," promoted by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, stems from a fundamental question: how can a painful memory be transformed into a resource for new generations and for the Europe of the future? Through authoritative contributions and voices diverse in experience, education, and background, the book interweaves historical reconstruction,...
Renzo Codarin confirmed as President of Anvgd
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the oldest and most widespread association of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, celebrated its XXII National Congress in Gorizia, renewing its National Council, which confirmed Renzo Codarin as President. These were intense days of internal debate, planning of future activities and taking stock of what has been done since the last congress (Rome 2016), with particular reference to the initiatives carried out despite the pandemic, which on the one hand prevented the Congress from being held in person, and on the other allowed the national management and several provincial committees to strengthen the...
The 22nd Congress of the Anvgd in Gorizia
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia was founded in 1947 with the aim of protecting and maintaining together the tens of thousands of refugees – native Italians – from Venezia Giulia, Carnaro and Dalmatia that the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947 had ceded to the former Yugoslavia. The initiatives of the Association, which today is divided into over 40 provincial Committees, have brought a decisive contribution in the field of legislative measures adopted by Parliament to resolve the problems of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, from laws for public housing to those for compensation for lost property in the ceded territories. Today the ANVGD...
"Remembrance Day has restored the dignity of an entire community"
Speech by the Deputy Vice President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Prof. Donatella Schürzel, at the ceremony for the Day of Remembrance 2022 held at the Senate of the Republic on Thursday 10 February. Mr. President of the Republic, Madam President of the Senate, President of the Chamber of Deputies, Honorable Senators and Deputies, Government Representatives, Civil, Military, Diplomatic and Religious Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen, Students Present, Friends and Brothers of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, Eighteen years ago, Law 92 of 30 March 2004 established the Day of Remembrance that we celebrate today and 75 years...
The recital “That Italy Across the Sea”
“It is not true that I, and all three hundred and fifty thousand Istrian exiles, are, were, bourgeois and fascists. It is not true that all of Istria was Slavic and had to return to Yugoslavia. It is not true that all my people are only nostalgic and irredentist”. “And if you had stayed? If with cunning patience you had remained in Istria, in your home, your houses, your stables, your fields, your apartments, would not have been occupied. All the liberators would have left, one after the other” “It was not we who wanted to leave; the truth was and is that “they” did not want us on those lands, which they claimed to erase,...
Anvgd awards Veneto Region for its commitment to Remembrance
On Wednesday 29 December at Palazzo Ferro Fini, in the Cuoi room, the President of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia received the Premio del Ricordo dedicated to Norma Cossetto awarded by the Associazione Nazionale Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia to the Veneto Region for its commitment to supporting the memory of the exile of the Italian population, of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. «We are bound to the history of the exiles by blood, memory and history – Luca Zaia underlined –, we share our identity and language. Our objectives are three: first of all not to forget, secondly to ensure that our children know the history and, thirdly, to ensure that the places where the tragedy...
Proverbs and sayings: the “VIZ” or “WITZ”
Joke, pun, witticism. “Christmas packages in installments? No, with money in hand; but then there is no more vice; with money in hand you can find them in every corner” This is what Enrico Rosamani reported in his “Julian Vocabulary of the dialects spoken in the Julian-Dalmatian Region as it was established by mutual agreement between the two States involved in the Rapallo Conference of 12/11/1920”, published in 1958. Proverbs and sayings that were often modified in the various dialects of different influences, from Trieste to Pola, from Rovigno to Muggia, from Zara to Veglia. But the ultimate meaning remained the same. Folklore is not only a collection of beliefs and opinions to be examined...
A Memory of Giuseppe – Pino Vuxani
A proud Zaratino has left us. With him, the last descendant of the Vuxani family, patriots of the Albanian community of Borgo Erizzo, a hamlet of the Municipality of Zara that bears the name of the Provveditore of the Republic of Venice, Nicolò Erizzo, who in 1726 welcomed and assigned to that place a group of Albanian Catholic families who had fled to escape the Ottoman occupation, has disappeared. In Zara, before the outbreak of the Great War, the Vuxani house was an important reference, headquarters of the Autonomist Party (the pro-Italian party), of the National League, of the Bersaglieri Society and of the Italo-Albanian Association. Giuseppe – Pino Vuxani (Zara 23.02.1926 – Trieste 16.12.2021)...
Unknown Soldier, your name is also Verbania
On the YouTube channel of the Comitato 10 Febbraio you can see the summary video of the event Milite Ignoto il tuo nome è anche Verbania organized by the Comitato 10 Febbraio of Verbania in collaboration with the Municipality of Verbania, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Multimedia Documentation Center of the Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlYDgXfreo The music and songs were performed by the Local Band Corps and the Motta Rossa Choir of Magognino di Stresa; the staging and historical reenactment was by the Historical Group Militaria 1848-1945. The event took place on 7...
Anvgd Roma conferences live on the CDM YouTube channel
On the CDM YouTube channel of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture, two conferences organized by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will soon be broadcast live. On Friday 10 December at 17:00 pm, live from the prestigious headquarters of Palazzo Ferrajoli in the central Piazza Colonna in Rome, the book "Occhi Mediterranei" by Dario Fertilio, Christophe Palomar and Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin (Pendragon, Bologna 2019) will be presented, an event that was supposed to take place in spring 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic. Introduced and moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni...
