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Sensa, Dalmatia and Doge Pietro II Orseolo
The Sensa, an ancient Serenissima tradition of the marriage with the sea, has been handed down since the Middle Ages. His Excellency, Patriarch of Venice Francesco Moraglia, emphasized that “the sea is not a border that separates, but a bridge that unites, and so these historical episodes are welcome in our memory and above all to be a stimulus to consider how much our present needs to meditate, to live and above all to find, even on a personal, social and political level, styles capable of generating peace”. The Sensa, an ancient Serenissima tradition of the marriage with the sea, has been handed down since the Middle Ages. His Excellency, Patriarch of Venice Francesco Moraglia, emphasized that “the sea is not a...
The Lion of St. Mark: a noble symbol of cultural identity
The Lion of St. Mark was elevated by the Julian-Dalmatian exiles to a noble symbol of identity during the painful exodus, which occurred after the Yugoslav occupation of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian lands. Remembering the history of this emblem today, April 25, the feast of St. Mark, means wanting to bear witness to the persistence of a historical and cultural heritage, faithfully maintained in exile for the purpose of a renewed European dialogue with the lands of origin. Origins and symbolism The virtuous trinomial Lion-St. Mark-Venice, which is partly found in the dialect expression “San Marco in forma de lion”, was created after a long and complex historical process. The...
The ancient families of the Serenissima in Dalmatia
On Friday 16 April, the presentation of the volume "The ancient families of the Serenissima in Dalmatia" (Lega Nazionale, Trieste 2021) was held in live streaming on the Lega Nazionale Facebook page. The author, Dr. Valentina Petaros, Dr. Diego Redivo and the President of the Association, Avv. Paolo Sardos Albertini participated. http://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=489789935399361&ref=watch_permalink&t=0 In a new valuable work by Valentina Petaros, thanks to the contribution of the Lega Nazionale, we will see a survey of Dalmatian archives that the author has carried out, encountering multiple difficulties that would have discouraged any other...
1600 years of Adriatic Italianness in the name of Venice
For the Italianity of the eastern Adriatic, Venice, whose 25th anniversary of its foundation we are celebrating today, March 2021, 1600, has always represented a point of reference, the most genuine element of connection with the Italian peninsula, with its language and its culture. Under the motto “Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus” engraved on the depictions of the lion of San Marco that decorated churches, palaces and fortresses from Muggia to Dulcigno, passing through Capodistria and Zara, relations between the two shores of the Adriatic were consolidated, not only in the name of trade and commerce, but also of artistic and cultural circulation: thus they remained within the ecumene...
Istria and Dalmatia: a story of immigration
In the 3rd century, Dalmatia was a central region of the Roman Empire. Even an Emperor born on that coast – Diocletian – had promoted the town of Split to a pseudo-capital, building a titanic palace there. But less than a century later, the lands of the eastern Adriatic found themselves becoming a front line. The Goths, first, and the waves of barbarians who followed them depopulated the rich regions of the right bank of the Danube. The border of Italy was marked near Aquileia, and the cities of Istria and Dalmatia became islands of Latinity in a seething sea of barbarian anarchy. The cities of the coast began to gather refugees who...
Croatia snatches away Italian historical figures
Croatia celebrates 30 years of independence… by stealing a dozen Italian historical figures by Emanuele Mastrangelo - 23/02/2021 Source: Storia In Rete Retroactive Ius soli in Zagreb, where a dozen Italians (plus several Serbs, Slovenes and Austro-Germans, some of whom are very famous, as we will see) have been “enlisted” as “greats of CROATIAN history”. This is the spectacle we are witnessing at the great exhibition for the thirtieth anniversary of Independence, at the Meštrović Pavilion in the capital. The exhibition is dedicated to 38 “great Croatian figures who changed the world”. They were chosen, the curators say, “because they were of Croatian origin, or because...
Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. Historical notes
Prof. Guido Rumici has created for the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia an updated version of the booklet "Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. Historical notes". It is a valuable summary of the history of the eastern Adriatic from the times of Rome to today, passing through the tragedies of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus. The booklet can be freely consulted and downloaded here in PDF format:
Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. Historical notes
Italians don't go on holiday
We share this article from the website of the Comitato 10 Febbraio, already published in the columns of the newspaper “Avvenire”, by Prof. Alessandro Masi, Secretary General of the Dante Alighieri Society and Councilor of the National Dalmatian Association. Unlike Venice, in Curzola, the most beautiful island between Split and Ragusa, cruise ships cannot dock. Stopped two miles from the port, the monstrous floating cities vomit hundreds of tourists every day, often unaware of everything. The large statues of the lions of the Serenissima Republic placed on the bastions of the city, slyly watch the scene in memory of a past that on this island...
The Treaty of Rapallo and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Italians of Dalmatia
One hundred years after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles wishes to remember this date as the initial phase of a process that led to the definitive erasure of Italians from Dalmatia. The Day of Remembrance does not stop on February 10th, therefore Federesuli, one hundred years after the hasty agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) wishes to remember the date of the beginning of the erasure of Italians from Dalmatia. That fragile microcosm where, starting from the fall of the Roman Empire, passing through Saint Jerome and the two Dalmatian popes Saint...
Venice and the Dalmatian Islands
Preview from the OBC Transeuropa website some pages of a guide dedicated to the Republic of Venice - which will be released at the end of the year - first volume of the series "Extinguished countries - States disappeared" by Giovanni Vale - 19/10/2020 Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa The sea unites, the sea divides. This is the oscillation that characterizes the relationship between the two shores of the Adriatic over time. Croatia shares a very long season with the Serenissima. Istria and Dalmatia are part of the Republic for three, four, even five centuries depending on the location. Together they experience the rise, the wars with the Ottomans fought side by side, the decline and...
