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July 11, 1920 the Split incident
These days many articles are dedicated to the burning of the Balkan in Trieste on July 13, 1920, but rarely is reference made to the killing of Tommaso Gulli, commander of the Royal Ship Puglia and Gold Medal for Military Valor, and the engineer Aldo Rossi, Silver Medal for Military Valor, in Split on the evening of the previous July 11. The arrival of this news in the Julian capital, where the Austro-Hungarian policies of divide and conquer, developed by the authorities in Vienna in the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy, had exacerbated opposing nationalisms, had given rise to a series of demonstrations that culminated in the shooting that took place on the Balkan. To this...
July 13th in Trieste: an important date, but still many issues to resolve
Within the National Council of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, which met on Tuesday 30 June via videoconference, in order to allow councillors from all over Italy to participate in compliance with the current health provisions, a document was approved regarding the imminent joint visit of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor to Trieste. After having focused attention in previous communications on the visit of the two Heads of State to the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza, the ANVGD intended to endorse an open letter released by Davide...
The incidents of Split, Trieste and Maresego 1918-1921
Valentina Petaros Jeromela, 1918-1921 Fire under the elections. The incidents of Split, Trieste and Maresego, July, Trieste 2018. Already the author of four essays that delve into the presence and activity of Admiral Enrico Millo di Casalgiate and his military governorship of Dalmatia immediately after the First World War, Valentina Petaros Jeromela has focused here on the historical situation that led to the Split incident that then determined the events of Trieste (culminating in the fire of the Balkan) and Maresego. In her long and exhausting search for new and unpublished sources, she has managed to find documents and evidence on people who had important roles,...
