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The name is derived from the Illyrian tribe of the Histri, which Strabo refers to as
living in the region. They Histri are classified in some sources as a "Venetic"
Illyrian tribe, with certain linguistic differences from other Illyrians. The
Romans described the Histri as a fierce tribe of pirates, protected by the difficult
navigation of their rocky coasts. It took two military campaigns for the Romans to
finally subdue them in 177 b.C.. The region was then called together with the Venetian
part the X. Roman Region of "Venetia et Histria". Per ancient definition the
north-eastern border of Italy. Dante Alighieri refers to it as well.
Some scholars speculate that the names Histri and Istria are related to the
Latin name Hister, or Danube. Ancient folktales reported-inaccurately-that the
Danube split in two or "bifurcated" and came to the sea near Trieste as well as at
the Black Sea. The story of the "Bifurcation of the Danube" is part of the Argonaut
legend.
Medieval period
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was pillaged by the Goths,
the Eastern Roman Empire, the Lombards, annexed to the Frankish kingdom by Pippin
III in 789, and then successively controlled by the dukes of Carinthia, Merano,
Bavaria and by the patriarch of Aquileia, before it became the territory of the
Republic of Venice in 1267. |
| Istria in the Republic of Venice and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Germany)
The coastal areas and cities of Istria came under Venetian Influence in the IX century.
It became definitely the territory of the Republic of Venice in 1267.
The Inner Istrian part around Mitterburg (Pisino-Pazin), was held for centuries by the
Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich).
Istria in the Austrian Empire (1797-1918)
Venetian rule left a strong mark on the region, one that can still be seen today.
The Inner Istrian part around Mitterburg, known to its Germanic and Rumenic (Morlacs)
occupants as Pisino-Pazin, was held for centuries by the Holy Roman Empire of the
German Nation. The venetian part of the peninsula passed to it in 1797 with the Treaty
of Campo Formio. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (First Reich) ended with
the period of Napoleonic rule from 1805 to 1813 when Istria became part of the Italian
Kingdom and of the Illyrian provinces of the Napoleonic Empire. After this short period
the newly established Austrian Empire ruled Istria as the so called "Küstenland"
which included the city of Trieste and Gorizia in Friuli until 1918. At that time
the borders of Istria included a part of what is now Italian Venezia-Giulia and parts
of modern-day Slovenia and Croatia, but not the city of Trieste. Today, Istria's
borders are defined differently. |
| Interwar period and World War II: Istria in the Kingdom of Italy
After World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, Istria returned to Italy.
After the advent of Fascism, the indigenous Croatian and Slovene population were
exposed to a policy of forced italianization and cultural suppression. They lost
their right to education and religious practice in their maternal language. The
organization TIGR, regarded as the first armed antifascist resistance group in
Europe, was founded in 1927 in the Slovene Littoral and soon penetrated into Slovene
and Croatian-speaking parts of Istria. In 1943 the jugoslave partizans invaded
Istria and started to terrorize the istrian population (infoibamenti). The german
occupation of Italy then stopped the partizan violents.
Istria in the SFR Yugoslavia
After the end of World War II, Istria was included into the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, except for a small part in the northwest corner that formed
Zone B of the provisionally independent Free Territory of Trieste (Trst); Zone B was
under Yugoslav administration and after the de facto dissolution of the Free Territory
in 1954 it was also incorporated into Yugoslavia. Only the small town of Muggia (Milje),
near Trieste, being part of Zone A remained with Italy. During and shortly after World
War II, large numbers of civilians were killed in the so-called foibe massacres, both
in Istria and in the Kras area surrounding Trieste. In the postwar years fear of
communism and strong post-war ethnic tension resulted in almost all Italians leaving
Istria. By 1956 the last migrations were coming to an end, Istria had lost a
significant segment of its population (80%)and part of its social and cultural identity.
The events of that period are most visible in Pula, a city located on the southernmost
tip of the Istrian peninsula. Between December 1946 and September 1947, the city was
abandoned by nearly all its Italian inhabitants. Most of them left in the immediate
aftermath of the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty on February 10, 1947, which ceded
Pula to Yugoslavia. Some emigrants took with them not only their belongings but also
their deceased. |
| Istria after the breakup of Yugoslavia
In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Istria was divided between the
republics of Croatia and Slovenia, following ethnic division lines. After the
breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 this administrative subdivision became a border between
independent states. Since Croatia's first multi-party elections in 1990, the regional
party Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS-DDI, Istarski demokratski sabor or Dieta
democratica istriana) has consistently received a majority of the vote and maintained
through 1990s a position often contrary to the government in Zagreb, led by then
nationalistic party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica)
with regards to decentralization in Croatia and certain regional autonomy. However,
that changed in 2000, when IDS formed with five other parties left-centre coalition
government, led by Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP, Socijaldemokratska Partija
Hrvatske). After reformed HDZ won Croatian parliamentary elections in late 2003 and
formed minority government, IDS has been cooperating with state government on many
projects, both local (in Istria County) and national. |
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