The fall of the great empires (firstly the Ottoman one, later the Austrian) during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the formation of the national states in the Balkans, where Slovenia partially lies, opened the question of the borders. The different political subjects founded their territorial claims on the historical right, provoking between the neighbors major tensions. The only partial exception of this rule is the frontier between Italy and Slovenia, reached after a long, more than a century-long process. The conflict between Italians and Slovenians was based, as regards the first on the historical and strategic pretensions, as regards the latter on the natural right. It is an exceptional case, whose main stages the author analysis in his study.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538111940
The article examined how commemoration practices and rituals characteristic of the post-World War I period took place in the multinational territory of the slovenian-italian border. In light of this, the present study aims to provide an analysis of how Slovenes living in the region annexed to Italy by the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920 responded to Italian commemorations of the 'Unknown Soldier'.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2265299
The article introduces and confronts the respective historiographies of the Slovenian-Italian border area, comparies the research carried out by university researchers belonging to institutions from either side of the border, who deal whit the history of the Northern Adriatic area in the 20th century. In represents a kind of balance sheet in the historiography of the border on the one hand; on the oder hand, it establish a starting point for reflection on the applications of analytical strategies and methodological concepts with which we could overcome the present situation in which we still talk of the existence of »two separate national historiography«.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2285011
The article deals with Yugoslav internal borders in the light of the views of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia on federalism and national question. Based on the documents of the high-ranking state and party bodies, and the relevant literature the author analyzes the post-war demarcation between the republics. Yugoslav internal borders were not regulated by law and formally approved at the higest state level, and the archives of the top-level federal bodies contain no documents that might serve as the basis for the originally drawn internal borders. Absence of the debate regarding internal territorial division and related legal acts was primarily due to the fear of rekindling inter-national tensions immediately after the war, and to the Party's attitude towards federalism. In the first postwar years, the policy of the communist authorities was highly centralized and the establishing of a strong and unified country was dictated also by the struggle for Yugoslav external borders.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538112452
The article reviews political use of history, analyzing historical narration in journalistic and historical publications of Slovene-Croatian border. At the point of contact of two nations that used to be closely connected, a typical mythological historical narration began emerging at the time of Yugoslavia’s disintegration. The analysis shows two levels of discussion – scientific and “activist”. These are two different types of discourse, which deal with the problem of border demarcation. First tends to keep the distance towards current political situation, second presents the border between Slovenes and Croats as unjust, making accusations against Slovene politicians and experts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538112708