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Croatia, tourism holds up but infections rise
Croatia seems to be paying for the tourist season that did not go so badly in July and August with a record number of coronavirus infections. In the meantime, people are thinking about how to go back to school on September 7. by Giovanni Vale - 25/08/2020 - Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa A new record number of infections was reached last weekend: 306 new cases were registered on Saturday, August 22, the highest number ever reported in Croatia since the beginning of the pandemic. To give an idea of the proportions, consider that during the so-called first wave of the coronavirus, between March and May, the number of infections had never exceeded one hundred. Furthermore, if we consider the number of infections on...
Border crossings in the Eastern Adriatic
It is called Sconfinamenti, the daily space dedicated to the Italians of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia hosted by Ornella Serafini (from Monday to Friday) and by Massimo Gobessi on Saturday and Sunday; an appointment with current affairs and culture on topics of common interest. “Sconfinamenti” expands its radio slot, offering the public, in the Sunday episode, book presentations, in-depth analysis, “guided” visits to exhibitions and museums, galleries of famous and lesser-known figures of a particular territory that overlooks the upper Adriatic. A new way to spend an hour in the company of the protagonists of these lands. The daily space...
The forgotten exodus of Dalmatians after the Great War
The National Dalmatian Association has reprinted the documentary that illustrates the fate of our fellow countrymen after the Treaty of Rapallo Thanks to the generous contribution of the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro – Internazionale, the National Dalmatian Association has been able to reprint the DVD “1921 The ignored exodus. The drama of the Italians of Dalmatia”, which appeared in its first edition a dozen years ago. This documentary is enriched by geographical maps, vintage postcards and above all images from the archive of Manlio Cace, who lived the days of the exciting arrival of Italy on 6 November 1918 in Sebenico and the consequent disappointment of the cession...
The scientific essay AlterItà
Editorial news: a scientific essay has been published entitled AlterItà. Essay on the indigenous 'Italian' cultures of Istria, Dalmatia, Bocche di Cattaro and Italian Grisons: vitality, fragility and bonds, Isepponi, Poschiavo (Switzerland) 2018, pp. 359 (ISBN: 9788890435430. Dewey decimal classification: 305.851049). The author is the ethnographer Gabriele Paleari (1971), who teaches at Nottingham Trent University, England. AlterItà examines the indigenous cultures of Istria, Dalmatia, Bocche di Cattaro and Italian Grisons. The term 'culture' refers to expressions such as architecture, food and wine, literature and languages. The study highlights...
The Twentieth Century of the Eastern Adriatic
On Monday 4 June at 18:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo in Rome (Via di San Teodoro, 72) the series of conferences dedicated to the culture of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia over the last three centuries will conclude with an in-depth study dedicated to the post-war period, introduced and moderated by Professor Rita Tolomeo (Dalmatian Society of National History of Rome). The Serbian historian Bogdan Zivkovic with "Yugoslavia, PCI and the question of the Italian minority. 50s-60s" will address the issue of the Italians "remaining" in Tito's Yugoslavia after the Peace Treaty of 1947. Professor Donatella Schürzel, historian and scholar of Eastern Adriatic literature, will present "The world...
Exemplary testimony of Italianness
ALPINE GATHERING IN TRENTO – AN EXEMPLARY TESTIMONY OF ITALIANNESS by Gianmaria Italia - 21/05/2018 “For the Alpini, the impossible does not exist” was written on a long banner that opened the Penne Nere parade in Trento on Sunday 13 May. It was a triumph of Tricolours in a city in celebration to write once again, one hundred years after the end of the Great War, another page of mutual affection between Italians and their Alpini who came to the Trentino capital for the 91st National Gathering. An estimated 500 thousand people came from every part of Italy and the world with fanfare and a great desire to be together in a festive atmosphere. An event...
The Adriatic Sea, Lake Venice
The Serenissima guaranteed the ethnic coexistence that was demolished by the Habsburg divide and rule. The first to try were the most fervent supporters of the Kingdom of Serbs, Slovenes and Croats that arose at the end of the First World War. During the Second World War, the Ustaša tried their hand at it first, followed by the Croatian nationalists who had infiltrated Tito's People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. Finally, it was the turn of the ultra-nationalists of independent Croatia in the 1990s. During the short century, many people tried to chisel them out or blow them up, but the winged lions of the Venetian Republic resisted and...
Italians of Dalmatia: from the unification of Italy to the disintegration of Yugoslavia
Addressing the question of Dalmatia in Italian-Yugoslav relations, and the Adriatic question in general, is a civil obligation on the occasion of the "Day of Remembrance of February 10". Doing so, however, means grappling with what is perhaps the most controversial and thorny field of investigation brought to the attention of the historian of Italian foreign policy. In fact, it means constantly asking the question of how imperialist, nationalist and expansionist that policy was after unification and up to 1943, not hiding also that traces of such imperialism continued to survive in the post-war period. Luciano Monzali, however, does not evade the challenge...
World War II: The Rescue of Jews in Yugoslavia and Dalmatia
There were approximately 78 Jews living in the territories of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia when the Nazis entered Belgrade on April 12, 1941. Most were victims of the Holocaust, but several thousand were saved thanks to the Italian army. A book reconstructs the story. 30/10/2017 - Diego Zandel During the Second World War, in the areas of former Yugoslavia occupied by Italians and Germans, Ante Pavelić's Croatian Ustasha allies were certainly not inferior in ferocity to the Nazis towards the Jews (and Serbs and Roma). Indeed, in some cases – excluding the use of crematoria – they were worse. The massacres were such that in order to...
