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The long twentieth century of the Adriatic border
Professor Davide Rossi, Professor of History and Technique of European Constitutions and Codifications at the University of Trieste and Vice President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Exiles, has published "The Long Twentieth Century of the Adriatic Border. Institutional Transitions and Legal Modifications" (Rubbettino Editore). This volume does not claim to be a comprehensive history of the legal and institutional culture of the upper Adriatic lands in the contemporary era, for which a much larger scope and approach would be required. Rather, much less ambitiously, it offers a selection of episodes, legal institutions, and treaties.
Osimo, a Treaty that is still being discussed
Polemics, protests, silences, disinterest and reticence: the Treaty of Osimo, signed in the town in the Marche region on 10 November 1975, marked a controversial page in the history of the eastern Italian border. In the face of historians, observers and politicians who judged it a masterpiece in the creation of an Italian Ostpolitik in the midst of the Cold War aimed at perfecting the already good relations with communist Yugoslavia, the Treaty of Osimo was immediately opposed by the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, while in Parliament the only vain opposition came from the Italian Social Movement. If at the time the bilateral agreement between Italy and Yugoslavia...
One hundred years ago the journey of the Unknown Soldier towards the Vittoriano began
Reading the chronicles, it almost seems like you are in another world: «the Commission carefully explored all the places where the fighting had taken place and a body was chosen for each of the following areas: Rovereto, Dolomites, Altipiani, Grappa, Montello, Basso Piave, Cadore, Gorizia, Basso Isonzo, San Michele, from Castagnevizza to the sea. The eleven bodies were initially taken to Gorizia, from where they were then transported to the Basilica of Aquileia on 28 October 1921. Here the choice of the body destined for glorious repose on the Altar of the Fatherland was made. The choice was made by a commoner, Maria Bergamas from Trieste, whose son Antonio had deserted from the army...
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...
Fiume, the city of life one hundred years later
On May 24, 1915, the Kingdom of Italy entered the First World War with a series of territorial claims established by the London Pact regarding Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Fiume was to be the remaining outlet to the Adriatic of a downsized Austro-Hungarian Empire deprived of Trieste, its main maritime port. The irruption onto the political scene of the principle of self-determination of peoples, the implosion of the dual monarchy and the birth of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the claims of Italianity by Andrea Ossoinack (the last representative of the capital of Carnaro in the Parliament of Budapest) and the Council...
April 25th was not a liberation for all Italians
On the day the Northern Italy National Liberation Committee unleashed the insurrection in Milan and in the other main cities now abandoned by the retreating Germans, in the far north-east the situation was very different. The Anglo-American troops were far from Venezia Giulia because, once the Gothic Line had been broken through, the priority was to reach the Brenner Pass and from there quickly get to Bavaria, where it was feared that the last desperate German resistance would be concentrated. Instead, the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was marching at forced marches, more interested in reaching Trieste, Gorizia, Pola and Fiume than in regaining control of cities...
The city of life one hundred years later
Davide Rossi (edited by), The city of life one hundred years later. Fiume, d'Annunzio and the long Adriatic twentieth century, Wolters Kluwer - Cedam, Padova 2020, 460 pp. This volume condenses the reports of a conference organized by Coordinamento Adriatico APS thanks to a contribution from L. 72/2001, initially conceived in Fiume, then held in Gorizia, on 27 and 28 June 2019, entitled The long twentieth century. The Adriatic question in Fiume between the two Paris Peace Conferences 1919 - 1947, in which the centrality of the city of Quarnera emerged in the twentieth century, as a bridge between East and West, a yearning of Italian nationalism, supported by a strong local autonomist spirit,...
November 4th, a popular victory that Italy is mutilating today
by Davide Rossi and Lorenzo Salimbeni - 04/11/2020 Source: l'Adige On 4 November 1918, the armistice signed the previous day at Villa Giusti between Italy and Austria-Hungary came into force, completing "the work begun with such heroism by our fathers", as Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy had announced on 24 May 1915 upon entering what contemporaries called the Great War, but which for Italians was the Fourth War of Independence. It was a conflict that crowned the auspices of irredentism, a political and cultural movement born in 1877 among the people of Trieste, Istria and Trentino who had gathered in Naples for the funeral of...
Italy's Return to Trieste (But Not Istria)
by Lorenzo Salimbeni and Davide Rossi Source: l'Adige - 26/10/2020 The very famous definition that Winston Churchill gave in 1946 of the Iron Curtain set its extremes at Stettin on the Baltic and Trieste on the Adriatic. Trieste had risen up not on April 25, 1945, but on the 30th, thanks to a National Liberation Committee that had had to face not only Nazi repression, but also denunciations and the will to conduct a parallel resistance by the communist partisans, both Italian and Slovenian and Croatian, who hoped for the annexation to the nascent Titoist Yugoslavia of the lands conquered by Italy at the cost of immense sacrifices during the First...
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...
