The book is a German version of the extended, updated, structurally modified and – as far as the scholarly apparatus is concerned – supplemented Slovenian edition of Ribič, kje zdaj tvoja barka plava? [Fisherman, where does your boat sail now?] published in 2007. It depicts the demarcation of the Slovenian-Croatian land border and underlines the problem of the maritime boundary. The book highlights the circumstances and tendencies of Austrian and Italian population censuses conducted in Istria from 1846 to the Yugoslav census of 1945. In addressing the issue of the maritime boundary, the book focuses on the right of management – fishing in the Bay of Piran from the first written references to Slovenian and Croatian independence. On the basis of archival sources and laws, it explains the complexity of the problem, which is to be settled by the Arbitration Court.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34836525
In the early Middle Ages, the population of White Carniola and Kostel would consider themselves Croats and call their language Croatian. The designation ‘Croatian’ also spread to the Slovenian border areas of Prekmurje and Prlekija. The dwindling and disappearance of this phenomenon until the end of the eighteenth century related to a number of factors, the most decisive among them being that the areas under discussion were never integrated into the Croatian political milieu. The spread of the name ‘Croatian’ to the aforementioned Slovenian areas was part of the process of nominal Croatization triggered by the Ottoman territorial gains in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The name ‘Croatian’ also established itself in a part of Slovenian territory in the early modern era. Prlekija, Prekmurje and White Carniola were the last to come under the shared state framework together with the rest of the Slovenian ethnic territory; before that they lived in a cultural interaction with the present-day Croatian milieu, which led to the Croatization of the linguonym ‘Croatian’ and the appearance of the ethnonym ‘Croats’; later on, however, both the linguonym and the ethnonym died out.
COBISS.SI-ID: 262959360
Among more than one hundred younger noble families in the Slovenian territory, Miha Preinfalk, a member of the programme group, and Mariano Rugále, the co-author, selected forty families and individuals, respectively, by taking into consideration in particular the following four criteria: granting of the title of nobility after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806; collection of sufficient data; relatedness to Slovenian history and the willingness of the living members of families under discussion to supplement the collected data. The work presents noble families that are less famous than the Auerspergs, Herbersteins, Zoises and Valvasors, but have – if they had not become extinct – remained in the Slovenian territory also after the Second World War. The title of nobility was, as a rule, granted to a person as a reward for their outstanding achievements, i.e. to become a member of nobility, one had to distinguish oneself in the service of the state or the emperor. The title of nobility was awarded to individuals who, one way or another, stood out from the average and played an important role in creating history.
COBISS.SI-ID: 260578304
Three original scholarly articles on the role of castles in the Slovenian territory authored by members of the programme group. The articles are scholarly papers published in the thematic issue of Kronika. Review for Slovenian Local History titled “Iz zgodovine slovenskih gradov”. They discuss castles as centres of seigniories in Carniola, the castle politics of the Counts of Celje, and castles as administrative centres in the Slovenian territory. The research on castles, their owners and administrators has only recently began to flourish, bringing new knowledge and thus providing new insight into the history of the Slovenian territory and its inhabitants within a broader time frame from the Middle Ages to present day.
COBISS.SI-ID: 263437312
The discussion describes the life of the city of Gorizia during World War I. The city was positioned squarely between the lines of fire of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies. The set of historical events reflected the chronology of World War I and the Isonzo Front, as well as internal dynamics typical of a nationally mixed city situated on the margins of the state territory. The beginning of the war brought the experience of mobilisation, return of the first wounded soldiers, arrests, internments and confinements. When the Isonzo battles started in May 1915, the inhabitants of the city had their first refugee experience; they lived in straitened circumstances, defying numerous diseases and omnipresent death. After the end of the last, Twelfth Isonzo Battle began the restoration of the city and the return of the refugees to their homeland. At the end of the war the city came under the administration of the Provincial Department of the National Council in Ljubljana and security concerns were entrusted to the 2nd (Slovenian) Mountain Rifle Regiment. Nevertheless, in line with the armistice between Austria and Italy, the city ultimately came under Italian administration and marked the beginning of a period of new ordeals.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33780269