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Franz Joseph ordered the denationalization of Italians
Franz Joseph ordered the “persecution” of Italians in Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. According to some historians, the emperor’s decision remained only on paper. But a careful reconstruction based on original sources shows that, unfortunately, this was not the case. And this policy was the basis of subsequent tensions between Italians and Slavs… The famous – or, if you prefer, infamous – order given by Franz Joseph of Habsburg to the Crown Council on 12 November 1866 to proceed with the Germanization and Slavicization of Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, is a historically indisputable fact, being reported in official documentation…
Tito's Massacres: No One Remembers Prozor
Prozor is the most brutal war crime of which Italian soldiers were victims before the armistice of September 154th; privates, officers, wounded and mutilated, unloved, surrendered after having done their duty, murdered by communist partisans to the last man, without any mercy or respect for the customs of war and international laws, of which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a signatory. The 1th Murge Occupation Infantry Division was formed on 1941 December 259; part of the VI Army Corps of the Royal Italian Army, it included the 260th and 154th Murge Infantry Regiment and the XNUMXth Murge Artillery Regiment....
What is the point of books like "And then the foibe?"
Let's say it right away: I had read Eric Gobetti's L'occupazione allegra. Gli italiani in Yugoslavia (1941-1943) (Carocci, 2007) and Alleati del nemico. L'occupazione italiana in Yugoslavia (1941-1943), (Laterza, 2013) and, especially the second one, seemed to me to be a sufficiently balanced work, despite the author's political opinions, well known and certainly not hidden (he had himself photographed while giving a closed fist salute with a red handkerchief around his neck in front of the Yugoslavian flag, or pretending to go for a walk with the statue of Tito: that's his business...). So what about the foibe? (Laterza, 2021) was therefore a disappointment, although certainly not unexpected. Not a real essay but a simple...
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...
Special “History on the Net” dedicated to foibe and exodus
The new monographic special of “Storia in Rete” is available at newsstands and in PDF format, dedicated to the issues of the eastern border of Italy: the foibe, the Julian-Dalmatian exodus and the roots of the historical events that led to the end of the Italian community in those Adriatic lands. While many still deny, justify, minimize or worse even sarcaze about the tragedy of the Italian communities persecuted and then forced into exile from Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, “Storia in Rete” takes stock of a long and complex story, analyzing it in its details often and willingly silenced or ignored by the plethora of historians and commentators who – for...
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...
