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Bloody Christmas, epilogue of d'Annunzio's Fiume enterprise
Gabriele d'Annunzio's march from Ronchi to Fiume on 12 September 1919 was intended to resolve with a bold coup the impasse regarding the definition of the border between Italy and the newly born Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The annexation of the port of Carnaro to Italy was not contemplated by the London Pact, but was proclaimed by the Fiume National Council on 30 October 1918, appealing, as had been done a few days earlier by the Fiume deputy to the Hungarian Parliament Andrea Ossoinack, to the principle of self-determination of peoples. The latter was part of that 14-point program intended to guarantee peace in the world and on the basis of which President Woodrow Wilson...
Kiss me brother, don't curse me
Mass in memory of the fallen of the Bloody Christmas and for the Italianity of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia The February 10 Committee has organized a mass to remember all the dead of the Bloody Christmas and, with them, all the Italians who lost their lives for the Italianity of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia: during the service, the current anti-Covid provisions must be observed (masks, distancing, etc.). On December 24, 1920, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Italy attacked the Regency of Carnaro led by Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was a fratricidal clash. About 50 dead. Despite the defeat, Gabriele D'Annunzio, on January 2, 1921, pronounced the...
D'Annunzio's Bloody Christmas in Fiume
Gabriele d'Annunzio's march from Ronchi to Fiume on 12 September 1919 was intended to resolve with a bold coup the impasse regarding the definition of the border between Italy and the newly born Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The annexation of the port of Carnaro to Italy was not contemplated by the London Pact, but was proclaimed by the Fiume National Council on 30 October 1918, appealing to the principle of self-determination of peoples that was part of that 14-point program intended to guarantee peace in the world and on the basis of which President Woodrow Wilson had dragged the United States into the First World War. The redefinition of the border in Dalmatia...
