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The eastern border of Italy

The borders of a State can be traced in their lines according to four different criteria: geography, ethnography, history and the needs of the defense of the State itself. Already in Roman times the defense of the Eastern Border was a matter of essential importance, being the most threatened of the entire Alpine chain, and therefore already in 128 BC a first external wall was erected from Longatico to the shores of the Quarnero and from Fiume the Roman wall moved in the direction of Plana until it touched the slopes of Monte Nevoso, where there was a permanent and particularly strategic military camp, the Castrum Catalanum, which the local mountaineers referred to as "the...
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Campagnuzza: from an exile village to a village of Gorizia

Tomorrow, Tuesday 5 October, at 17:00 pm (that is, at the end of the ceremony in honour of Norma Cossetto which will take place at 16:30 pm (between via del Carso and via Norma Cossetto at the height of Via del Pasubio, in the Campagnuzza district), in compliance with the anti-Covid regulations, in the oratory of the parish of Campagnuzza the book Campagnuzza: from an exile's village to a village of Gorizia, edited by Francesca Santoro and Maria Grazia Ziberna, will be presented. In the text, published by the provincial committee of Gorizia of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and by the CDM (Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture), after ...
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We exiles, multimedia project by CDM and Anvgd

The press review of how the Trieste daily newspaper "Il Piccolo" faced the catastrophe of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus, in a historical phase in which the fate of the Julian capital was still uncertain. Images from the archives of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture (CDM) and documentaries from the Istituto Luce. Testimonies collected by interviewing those who lived through the catastrophe that uprooted 90% of the native Italian community from Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia that had lived in those lands for centuries. The story told through podcasts of how sport represented redemption for many athletes from those...
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Presentation of “Truth Infoibate” in Bergamo

The President of the Provincial Committee of Bergamo of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Prof. Maria Elena Depetroni, is pleased to announce that on Friday 1 October at 18:00 pm in the Sala dei Mille of the Hotel Excelsior San Marco (Piazzale della Repubblica, 6 - Bergamo) the presentation of Verità infoibate. The victims, the executioners, the silences of politics (Milan 2021) will take place in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Culture. Introduced by Prof. Depetroni, the authors of the book Fausto Biloslavo and...
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The Karst and its sinkholes

The karst, an arid, harsh, barren and stony land, furrowed by the icy gusts of the bora that split its slopes, exacerbates the work of agriculture that the Julian and Istrian peoples have nevertheless been able to exploit, adapting and alternating vineyards and sheep farming field after field. The Istrian sheep, symbol of Istria, also known as carsolina or dalmata-karsica developed in the northern Adriatic and in the Italian, Slovenian and Croatian karst plateau, derived from the crossbreeding of Italian animals with Balkan sheep, brought mainly by the Dacian community. Arriving in the Karst with the Ottoman invasion in the 17th century, it was raised in the karst areas. The flocks...
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The stall ended by talking about the Exodus, the Foibe and Alida Valli

Yesterday at the Bancarella was a day dedicated to memorials, on the last day of the event organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Over the course of the four days, the event attracted hundreds of people to the marquee in Piazza Sant'Antonio, always within the limits of the number allowed by the restrictions related to Covid. "From memories to history", this was yesterday's theme, during which the journey of the exiles was retraced once they had been exodused in the various camps...
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Bancarella 2021: female perspectives on the Adriatic and closing dedicated to the Exodus

A day entirely dedicated to women, the third of the Bancarella 2021 Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale, the event organized in Trieste by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in synergy with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. “Queen” of the women of the Eastern Adriatic (Saturday's theme) was chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, received in the marquee of Piazza Sant'Antonio in Trieste like a real star. Young and old, young and old crowded (as much as possible given the period) the interior and immediate exterior of the...
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From tourism to cuisine, passing through art and literature at the Bancarella

Second day of the Bancarella, the exhibition organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) with the support of the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in the name of entertainment. The theme of the day was in fact "Tourism between history and future networks". During the day, a dive into the holiday fashions of the past was made through the vision of the Eastern Adriatic Lands by the Italian Touring Club. Only one event for the morning, concerning Venezia Giulia in the historical guides of the Italian Touring Club. Talking with the architect Emanuele...
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Great interest in the inauguration of the Bancarella, today it starts already in the morning

"Creating an event like this 25 years ago would have been much more difficult." These are the words with which the mayor of Trieste, Roberto Dipiazza, launched the 2021 edition of "La Bancarella - Salone del libro dell'Adriatico Orientale", an event organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. "This is the demonstration of how, over the last five years, many things have changed - added the mayor - and I am proud to have started this path of dialogue and looking to the future...
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The stall begins with Visions of the exodus between past and future

The 23 edition of "La Bancarella. Salone del libro dell'Adriatico orientale" (Eastern Adriatic Book Fair) begins today, Thursday 2021 September, in Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo in Trieste, organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. All events can be viewed live on the websites www.anvgd.it and www.arcipelagoadriatico.it The theme of the first of the four days is "Visions of the Exodus between past and future" and it will be inaugurated, at 17:00 pm, by a round table in the presence of the director of the city newspaper Il...