After World War I the newly acquired borderlands played a key role in the national symbolism of post-war Italy. In this paper special importance is given to the former Habsburg port-city of Trieste/Trst/Triest, where the new authorities transformed the urban space in order to rewrite the city’s history. In this multiethnic town post-war homogenization in the Italian nation provoked expulsion, marginalization and forced assimilation of non-Italian population. The local Slovene population suffered harsh discrimination and former Habsburg symbols were removed. This symbolic language is evident at several levels from toponomastics to commemorations, from architecture and monuments to modeling and shaping of the cultural landscape.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538820292This papers tries to highlight some of the issues regarding the interconnection between different national and social groups in Trieste and the Habsburg state by analysis some local reactions to the Sarajevo assassination and the consequences it triggered in Trieste. It thus draws attention to the complexity and complementarity of symbols, feelings of belonging and multilayered identities of Habsburg citizens and the city of Trieste. The revised resources show a picture, which slightly changes the prevalent perspective of supposedly absolute national identity, of dynastic (dis)loyalty and social and national situation in times of heightened social tension during the July crisis and mobilization.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538783172The preface summarizes the attitude and policies of Benito Mussolini towards the Slovenian population. His regime has carried out a brutal policy of assimilation, all forms of resistance were to be violently broken. Italian policy towards Slovenians was succinctly expressed by Mussolini in his speech in July 1942 in Gorica, when he threatened the Slovenes with "the unyielding law of Rome." The majority of Slovenian population, therefore, received the fall of his regime with relief and delight.
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