In one of the last sessions of the Budapest Parliament in the tumultuous weeks that led to the implosion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the autumn of 1918 (imperial proclamation of federal reform of the Austrian portion of the Empire, collapse of the Piave and Salonika fronts, social and national revolts) the representative of Fiume Andrea Ossoinack appealed to the Wilsonian principle of self-determination of peoples for the capital of Carnaro, whose Italianness had to be recognized and respected. On 29 October the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs proclaimed itself, which gathered these components present within the Habsburg imperial structure: no State...