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Initiatives to raise awareness of the Trieste uprising of November 1953
Seventy years ago, on November 5 and 6, six people from Trieste fell under the blows of the Civil Police of the British Government that administered the Julian city. Their names: Pierino Addobbati, Antonio Zavadil, Francesco Paglia, Leonardo Manzi, Erminio Bassa and Saverio Montano, awarded the gold medal for civil valor in 2004 by the President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Those were the days of the “Trieste Revolt” for the return of the capital to Italy that broke out on November 3 when the mayor Gianni Bartoli wanted to display the tricolor to commemorate the 1918 annexation to the Kingdom of Italy. “Today is the anniversary of the Trieste Revolt. Thousands of...
Italians in Zone B
On 26 October 1954, the London Memorandum came into force, according to which the never-established Free Territory of Trieste provided for by the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947 saw the end of the two military administrations that had governed it following the stalemate in the United Nations Security Council regarding the designation of the Governor. On a day of jubilation, Zone A (essentially the current province of Trieste) saw the end of the Allied Military Government and the Italian civil administration took over. However, some fractions of the Municipality of Muggia were ceded to Yugoslavia, generating yet another small exodus and giving the dictatorship...
The Court of Cassation reaffirms the non-existence of the Free Territory of Trieste
Faced with the appeal of a citizen of Trieste who believed he did not have to pay taxes to the Italian State as a usurper of the Free Territory of Trieste, the Court of Cassation reaffirmed the orientation of previous jurisprudence, which has already stated on other occasions that, although foreseen by the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947, the FTT has never actually been implemented and therefore it is impossible to invoke its existence today. The Trieste daily newspaper Il Piccolo in its March 22 edition illustrated the sentence and gave the floor to historian Patrick Karlsen and European Law expert Fabio Spitaleri for further...
45 years ago the Treaty of Osimo
November 10, 1975, Treaty of Osimo: if September 8 outrages you, this date should make you scream with rage by Davide Rossi and Lorenzo Salimbeni - 10/11/2020 Source: l'Adige The end of the First World War in November 1918 did not mean the immediate pacification of the Continent, tormented by nationalist claims eager to overturn the borders and by revolutionary ferments inspired by the Bolshevik revolution. Gabriele d'Annunzio's expedition to Fiume at the head of his legionaries represented for Italy the most striking appendix of the conflict, while military missions were located in various crisis areas (Carinthia, Silesia, etc.) and a significant...
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...
October 26, 1954: Trieste returns to Italy. Pella's military plan
by Giulio Bendfeldt - 25/10/2020 Source: l'Adige Sixty-six years ago, on October 26, 1954, the national Risorgimento was completed with the definitive return of Trieste to Italy and, after nine years, the period of terror that had accompanied the end of the Second World War in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Istria ended. A period that saw the genocide and then the dramatic exodus of the Italian population of Istria, Dalmatia and the Kvarner Islands. We all remember the photographs of the entry of Italian soldiers into the city that symbolizes that martyrdom, but few remember that to get to that day - in addition to the many deaths in the clashes between Triestine...
Tito's Italians
Enrico Miletto, Tito's Italians. Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste and Communist Emigration to Yugoslavia (1947-1954), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 2019. Between 1947 and 1954, Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste (FTT) was at the center of geopolitical changes, cultural, social and demographic transformations linked to the end of the Second World War, the international framework and the border issue, which with the signing of the London Memorandum reached its almost conclusive point of definition. If the first phase of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus has now found a stable place in the national historiographical panorama, less prominence has been given to...
The Tripartite Declaration That Never Came True
“The American, British and French Governments have decided to recommend that the Free Territory of Trieste be placed back under Italian sovereignty, which appears to be the best solution if one wishes to take into account the democratic aspirations of the population and the need to restore peace and stability in that region”: this was the most significant part of the Tripartite Declaration issued on 20 March 1948, after the question of the FTT had been far from being resolved for over a year. The Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947, in fact, had left the fate of the Julian capital in suspense, outlining the constitution of a Free Territory of Trieste...
A documentary about Istria in 1947 offensive to the Exiles
ca: Antonio Rocco Deputy Director General TV Koper - Capodistria Robert Apolonnio Editor-in-Chief TV Koper - Capodistria and pc: Alessandra Argenti Tremul TV Koper - Capodistria Giuseppe Grimaldi Buccino Director General Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Francesco Saverio De Luigi Plenipotentiary Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maurizio Tremul President of the Executive Board of the Italian Union Dear Sirs, I am writing regarding the program broadcast by the Network...
