For Littoral (Primorska) and Istria are characteristic numerous border changes in the 20th Century. Nationalisms and other ideologies demanded uniformity, although the region is known by the diffusion of identities. In the process of “boundary-making” the interests of states and great powers were important than the interests of the local population.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 515203468Three cases are used to sustain the author’s thesis that the process of ethnicity along the Slovenian-Croatian boundary deviated from the actual administrative lines only when suffering from the competing ethnic ideologies. In order to support the argument, the data from Istria, Upper Kolpa Valley, and Prekmurje/Medjimurje are examined. furthermore, it is argued that such a reciprocally unilateral view of the local population as cross-border neighbours stems from the perceptions of the local micro-regional environment, regardless of any more objectified circumstances. Thus, the permanent dynamics within the process of ethnicity remain immanent of “identity formation“ itself.
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