Slovene associations in Croatia began to emerge at the moment when there were enough individuals in a given space who understood that the Slovene language and culture acquired in their region of origin were different from what they encountered in their new homeland. The book presents the founding, development, work, but also disappearance of Slovene associations in Croatia starting from the end of the 19th century, when the existence of the first Slovene associations on the territory of Croatia was recorded, until the year 1991, which marks a change in the state-political organization and the moment when the members of the Slovene community in Croatia received the status of a national minority. At least 42 Slovene associations were registered in the observed period in major Croatian cities. This work aims to provide more detailed descriptions of the types of Slovene associations, their activities, the people involved in them, and the difficulties their members faced, as well as to present the history of the activities of Slovene associations, which shape the fabric of the Croatian cultural, social, and political history. Undoubtedly, these associations have also influenced the creation of the society we live in today and have left an indelible trace of existence for future generations in Croatia.
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Since mythology knew no boundaries until "the birth" of nation-states in the 19th century, some folklore heroes are shared by more than one nation. One such hero is Petar Klepac (in Croatian)/Peter Klepec (in Slovenian)/Pitr Kljepc (in local dialects), a hero of the Kupa and Čabranka Valley in the Slovenian-Croatian border region, who still appears in the local narrative tradition. The hero legends about him are part of the heterogeneous intangible heritage of the valley. Many places as well as the names of settlements, microtoponyms and personal names in the valley of the upper Kolpa and Čabranka and elsewhere in Slovenia and Croatia are connected with the path, ie the life and heroism of Peter Klepec. Their analysis, which is the aim of the present article, provides an insight into the spatial structure of the heroic myth and into the imaginary of this local folk hero, which is still present today in the identification strategies of the inhabitants of the valley on both sides of the Slovenian-Croatian border.
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