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“Tarnova 1945”, the battle for Gorizia
The Battle of Tarnova della Selva (19-21 January 1945) began with the attempt by Tito's forces to annihilate the fascist republican garrison, consisting of the battalion of the Tenth Division "Fulmine". The Italian soldiers, although they resisted for a long time, were overwhelmed in number by the large partisan troops of the IX Corpus; aided by troops from Gorizia, they managed to break out of the encirclement. This led to the abandonment of the position, located on the road leading to the Vipacco Valley. The clash was distinguished by its particular harshness and by the courage demonstrated by both the Italians of the "Fulmine" and the Slovenians of the brigade...
Notes for an ethnolinguistic map of Istria
by Emanuele Mastrangelo - 03/01/2021 Source: Storia In Rete Venezia Giulia is a two-faced Janus. The comparison between the maps produced in Italy - on the one hand - and in Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia (and sympathizers) on the other shows two radically opposed ethno-linguistic situations of Venezia Giulia. The same thing goes for the demographic surveys that underlie them. And as is imaginable each pro domo sua. Italian cartography extends the Latin part of the Julian population reaching to include large slices of the Istrian hinterland. On the other hand, anti-Italian (or pro-Slavic, depending on the point of view) maps tend to reduce the...
Istria before the apocalypse
Italian Islands in a Slavic Sea by Emanuele Mastrangelo - 26/12/2020 Source: Storia in Rete Between 1945 and 1949, the depopulation of the Italian component in Istria and Dalmatia was completed. A process that had begun centuries earlier, with the barbarian invasions of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries and then the settlement of the first Slavic communities in the hinterland of Dalmatia-Illyria. From that historical moment, the Latin communities found themselves to be urban islands in a rural Slavic sea. To counteract the progressive dissolution of these urban realities (which from the Middle Ages increasingly began to identify themselves as "Italian" with the progressive replacement of Dante's language with Latin and the addition of...
Italy, “Blessed Land” Even on Its Eastern Border
Emanuele Mastrangelo - Emanuele Merlino - Enrico Petrucci (edited by), Blessed Land. Stories of Italy and great Italians, Idrovolante, Rome 2020. From the literary collective that gave life to the project Heroes. Twenty-two stories from the Great War, a new anthology of Stories to remember that Italy is so rich in Heroes and courage that it can positively overturn the famous maxim of Bertold Brecht "Wretched is the land that needs heroes". And for this reason, especially in a time of fear and pandemic, it is always necessary to remember the greatness of our history. 15 historical stories of heroes in war, heroes in peace, heroes in sports, heroes in industry, heroes...
Little vademecum for February 10th
1 - no, the story does not begin on July 13, 1920 with the burning of the Narodni Dom in Trieste. The violence had begun much earlier and no one remembers that in 1915 the Slovenians had attacked Italian cultural institutions with the complicity of the Austro-Hungarian police, burning the headquarters of "Il Piccolo", the "Lega Nazionale", Italian bookshops and cafés, Italian gyms and sports clubs, etc. 2 - no, there is no proportional relationship between "fascist oppression" and the foibe. There is no proportion between telling a Slovenian or a Croatian "speak Italian!!" and taking people away, tying them up with wire and throwing them alive into a foibe. 3 - no, the question of...
