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The truth about Trieste that the left in Croatia doesn't like
In the margin of the statements of the Mayor of Fiume – Rijeka, Dr. Obersnel, on historical issues concerning the city of Trieste, which appeared in IL PICCOLO: one cannot ignore this part of the truth when commenting on historical facts of great complexity and importance. In early May 1945, with the arrival of the Yugoslav partisan forces, there was no real liberation, nor were the foundations laid for the advent of a democratic and multi-party regime in Zadar, Fiume, Istria or Trieste. To the historical mission of having contributed to the defeat of Nazism in that border area, the Yugoslav Popular Movement, controlled by the communists, added to this the serious...
The Fiume Enterprise: A Patriotic Action, Then Revolutionary
by Marino Micich – Director of the Historical Archive Museum of Fiume - Mediterranean and surroundings On 12 September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, leaving from Ronchi, arrived in Fiume with about two hundred legionnaires, who would become more than three thousand the following month. It was an armed action shared by important sectors of the Italian Army, as well as by various political and Masonic circles. The Fiume enterprise was born from dissatisfaction with the territorial issues that remained unresolved after the First World War between Italians and Yugoslavs, the latter supported by the French and the Americans. "Our victory, you will not be mutilated": with this phrase published...
The Adriatic world in the second half of the twentieth century
by Lorenzo Salimbeni - 09/06/2018 ROME | A large and qualified audience (including among others Prof. Ester Capuzzo of La Sapienza University, Prof. Giuseppe de Vergottini of the Adriatic Coordination Association and Prof. Damir Grubiša, former ambassador to Italy of the Republic of Croatia) characterized the last event of the series of study conferences "The cultural world in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia from 1700 to 1900", organized at the Casa del Ricordo by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in synergy with the Department of Culture of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Rome Capital. Introduced and...
Meeting with Giordano Bruno Guerri and other initiatives of the Society of Fiumani Studies
December 2, 2017 President Giovanni Stelli and Director of the Historical Archive Museum of Fiume Marino Micich met with the President of the Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation Giordano Bruno Guerri. Some programmatic lines of collaboration have been established between the Society of Fiumani Studies and the Vittoriale Foundation whose president has established a "Fiume Office" with Dr. Federico Carlo Simonelli as contact, to be able to celebrate the next centenary of the D'Annunzio Enterprise of Fiume (1919-2019) also with the involvement of the Fiume exiles. Initiatives are planned at the Vittoriale, in Rome and in Fiume. In Fiume (Rijeka) in particular, contact will be made with...
For the history of the difficult Eastern Border
The course for school teachers promoted by the Tuscany Region and organized by the Tuscan Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age - the Grosseto Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age - the National Institute for the History of Liberation Movements in Italy - took place in Siena on Tuesday 21 November 2017 at the University for Foreigners. "The seminar will dedicate a further and targeted thematic study to the history and events of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles" began the coordinator of the day, Dr. Matteo Mazzoni of the Tuscan Historical Institute of the Resistance. The President of this session...
