On the basis of the study on the early modern historiographical sources of the regions of Friuli and Gorizia, the article exposes the Slovene speaking male and female population of the western Slovene territory taking part in some medieval and early modern blood feuds, plundering expeditions, Ottoman incursions and the two Habsburg-Venetian wars (1508-1516/1521, 1615-1617).
COBISS.SI-ID: 34855725
No systematic study has so far been carried out in Slovenian historiography on why and when the inhabitants of White Carniola/Bela krajina and Kostel began to identify themselves in the early modern era as Croats and to call their language Croatian, as also already discussed in Janez Vajkard Valvasor’s The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (1689). What is more, in recent decades publications of various sources have provided confirmation of the presence of the name ‘Croatian’ in two other Slovenian border areas: as a linguonym and ethnonym in Prekmurje, and only as a linguonym in Prlekija. The reasons for the establishment of the term ‘Croatian’ in place of the original ‘Slovene’ were similar in all four border areas under discussion but also specific to each one. The areas differed with respect to the time frame in which the term ‘Croatian’ was documented and also with respect to its rootedness. Using comparative methods and drawing on the widest possible spectrum of sources, this discussion sheds light on the reasons for the appearance and disappearance of the term ‘Croatian’ in four Slovenian border areas. Its main conclusion is that the term ‘Croatian’ in the areas under discussion established itself as a transitional phenomenon substituting for the original term ‘Slovene’(noun) or ‘Slovenian’ (adjective), the area being at the time replete with “prenational” significance and embraced by a good part of modern Croats as their own.
COBISS.SI-ID: 262959360
A couple of years ago the author of the present article ruled out the possibility that the Carniolan polymath Janez Vajkard valvasor (1641–1693) died in the so-called Valvasor´s house in Krško, on the front of which was attached in 1894 a built-in commemorative plaque. The author has then managed to establish with a great deal a certainty that the polimath´s last home was actually the house located some tens metres away from the wrongly identified house. The purpose of the article is to shed light on the history of both houses based on the availasble data and to clarify any possible dilemmas regarding which of the two houses is the right one. The study focuses mainly on the issue of two owned the so-called Valvasor´s house during the polimath´s lifetime and on the history of the house that was actually owned by Valvasor.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1458037