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In 1918 Korcula was part of Dalmatia

In 1918 Korcula (then called Curzola) was part of Dalmatia. Dalmatia was a province in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was already more than a century old (Dalmatia itself as a region, dates back to the Roman Empire). According to the Austrian censuses it was predominately made up of Croatians and Italians (and other minorities). With the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, Serbia started occupying the region (Italy did the same). This was part of the Treaty of Rapallo.[1] It was interpreted back then as the formation of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenia.

The new kingdom had the support of Great Britain and France, who were the superpowers of the day. In retrospect this was a tragic move, one that the United States was against. The effects of this political stupidity are still felt today. It is interesting how this newly created state “Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenia”, which later became better know as the ill fated Yugoslavia, was given a lot of support over the succeeding decades. This part of European history surely needs more academic attention.

Signor Arneri stated: Historic quote taken from Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic: By Andrew Archibald Paton. Chapter 4. The Dalmatian Archipelago.p164 (1861)

“ These three pears you see on the wall," said he, "are the arms of my family. Perussich was the name, when, in the earlier part of the fifteenth century, my ancestors built this palace; so that, you see, I am Dalmatian. All the family, fathers, sons, and brothers, used to serve in the fleets of the Republic (Republic of Venice); but the hero of our race was Arneri Perussich, whose statue you see there, who fought, bled, and died at the Siege of Candia, whose memory was honoured by the Republic, and whose surviving family was liberally pensioned; so his name of our race. We became Arneri, and ceased to be Perussich [2] ”

According to Marinko Gjivoje, Perussich is Piruzović''.[3]

If we put aside political correctness, concerning Korcula's history

Firstly it appears to me that the region (former Yugoslavia/West Balkans) has problems with interpreting multicultural and multiethnic history (& societies).

“ Quote by contemporary historian Danijel Dzino: Medieval studies in Croatia and in most of the former Yugoslav space were firmly rooted in political history and suffered from isolationism and lack of interest in foreign scholarship. In the communist era, especially after the 1960s, Marxist ideology and national and Yugoslav political-ideological frameworks strongly impacted on the research into medieval history in Croatia [4] ”

If we put aside political correctness, one could ask the question what happened to the Latin - Illirian - Greek families [5] on the island of Korcula (Corcyra Nigra) in the 7th century when the Slavs invaded. The Slavic tribes invaded Dalmatia province of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) .

The 19th century theories concerning the identity of these early Slavs is flawed.

Latest scholarly & archaeological research:

Latest scholarly & archaeological research states that the Slavs of Southern Dalmatian were identified as neither Croatians or Serbs. They were called Slavs (Dalmatian Slavs). Funny that considering what has happened historically to the region in the last 60 - 70 years. It actually makes perfect sense that the original Slav settlers were identified and identified themselves as Slavs. Later the Slavic peoples started to identify themselves into separate ethnic groups which is perfectly normal. It seems that in Dalmatia the Slavic identity lasted much longer.

Historic quote taken from When Ethnicity Did not Matter in the Balkans by John Van Antwerp Fine:

“ "In 1262 the Venetians praised the Slavs and Latins on the island of Korcula for submitting to the prince Venice had sent" [6] ”

There is archaeological evidence from 16 century where the Croatian identity was used. Stone writings in Zavalatica are dedicated to events from 889 AD. It describes a clash between the Slavic population and the Venetian army. Marinko Gjivoje wrote about the find in 1972. The stone writings uses: Hrvat Dalmatinac in its writings.Hrvat means Croatian in Slavic.[7]

Events

Events could have unfolded (& most probably did) which led to them being attacked and killed. The survivors could have fled from Korcula to Ragusa (Dubrovnik), then a place of refuge. Maybe some survived and remained on the island. Later Latin - Illirian - Greek citizens started to return to the island in larger numbers thus creating a historic multicultural and multiethnic society.

Judging by what happened to the Roman cities of Dalmatia; Epidaurum, Narona and Salona (which were then part of the Byzantine Empire), these towns were destroyed. The Avari participated in these events too. This pattern of aggression of the Slavic tribes in conquering new territory must have continued during the following decades (& centuries) of the dark ages (even more modern times). In this historic period it is recorded that many of the churches on the island of Korcula were destroyed (then rebuilt at a later stage). [8]

It is likely that the new population settled in the centre of the island (Cara). The centre of the island had its strategic qualities which allowed protection on all sides from attack by sea. It also had fertile land which allowed cultivation. After the invasion of Slavic tribes the region stabilised to a certain extent. The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice started to exert a political influence over the region and it’s new peoples. These events have been recorded historically by both Empires in chronicles of the time.

Dalmatians of Latin ancestry brought Mediterranean cultural to the Slavs. Christianity was one aspect of this. In essence Slavs on the island were Romanized.

Below taken from Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula by Nikola Ostoic: [9]

  • Subject to the Roman Emperors first from the west, then from the east, by Augustus at Heraclius until 642
  • Defeated and confederated by the Neretljani from 642 to 999
  • Conquered by the Veneti under the management of the doge Pietro Orscolo from 999 to 1100
  • Held by the Genoese from 1100 to 1129
  • Recaptured by Popone Zorzi, from the Veneto Region, and by the Republic of Venice subjected to this house from 1129 to 1180, from 1252 to 1254, and from 1258 until 1357
  • Possessed on behalf of the king of Hungary from 1257 and with brief interruptions of the Genoese until 1418
  • Devoting itself of its own accord to the Republic of Venice in 1420, and held by it with exemption from any tax until 1797
  • Surrendered with the Veneto State to Napoleon I of France, and united with the Kingdom of Italy from 1806 to 1807, and later from 1808 to 1813 annexed with Dalmaatia to the Illyrian provinces
  • Taken and held by the Russians in 1808
  • Taken from the French by the English and guarded for themselves from 1813 to 1815
  • Occupied by Austria, first by obligation from 1797 to 1806, later by Vienna Treaty from 1815 to the present 1858

Below by Peter Z.

  • Indigenous population of Korcula were Illyrians.[10] It is believed that the Illyrians arrived in the Balkans approximately 1000 BC.[11]
  • Greek colony was founded on Korcula.[12] Greek colonists from Corcyra (Corfu) formed a small colony on the island in the 6th century B.C. The Greeks named it "Black Corfu" after their homeland and the dense pine-woods on the island.

Lumbarda Psephisma is a stone inscription on the island of Korcula, in modern-day Croatia. It is believed that the psephism is from the 4th century B.C. The Greeks established a settlement on the basis of a prior agreement with the representatives of the local Illyrians who were Pil and his son Daz.

“ Quote: Best of luck. During the time of hieromnamon Praxidam in the month of Machaneus a contract was made to establish a colony between the people of Issa and Pil and his son Daz. Colony founders agreed upon and the people decided: those who where the first to occupy the land and built a wall around the city would get a special land to build houses within the fortified city, especially with a part, and of the land which was outside the city, so that those first people separately obtain the first lot of three plethrons separated from the land, and from the other parts, to write down (what lot and what part) each of them obtained, and in permanent ownership they (and their descendants) get one and a half plethrons each; subsequent colonists are to get from undistributed land in the field four and a half plethrons; the authorities swear never to divide the city or land again; if someone of the authority proposes something or someone agrees against this (Psephism), let he or she be dishonoured, and his or her property should become public property; the person who kills him or her is not to be punished……… This land was obtained and the city walls built by: Dymanes, Hylleis & Pamphylois. [13] ”
  • The island became part of the Roman province of Illyricum. [14] After the Illyrian Wars. Roman migration followed and Roman citizens arrived on the island. [15] In 10 AD Illyricum was split into two provinces, Pannonia and Dalmatia.[16] Korcula became part of the ancient Roman province of Dalmatia.
  • In the 6th century it came under Byzantine Empire rule.
  • The Great Migrations of the 7th century, brought the Slavic peoples[17] into the Dalmatia region.
  • Second Slavic (Croatian) migration in 17th & 18th century.

Additional:

  • Venetian & Ragusan families (Jewish families from Spain).
  • Korcula originally a Latin town. Latter became Latin/Venetian/Slavic (Croatian).
  • Cara (or Čara) originally Slavic village.

Interesting: Cara used to be called Hara. The Austria-Hungary census registered Cara's name as Kcara.

The Statute of Korcula was first drafted in 1214. It was probably written by Latin & Slavic Nobility.

Korcula's old name was Curzola. The Old-Slavic term was Krkar. (Korcula a historically a multicultural and multiethnic society)

Naši - The Us (ours) People

  • Grammatica Della Lingua Illirica by Francesco Maria Appendini (Ragusan-Dubrovnik/Italian) [18] A book on the Croatian language written in 1828. Section of the book here
  • Below taken from Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina by John Gardner Wilkinson. Published in 1848 (p33).
“ Naski (ours) or Illirskee is a Slavonic Dialect.[19] ”
  • Editors notes: Naski or in Croatian Naški. The š is pronounced sh. (Interesting: Blato was called Blatta)
  • Korcula Dialect (or Korčulanski) is a Croatian dialect from the island of Korcula in Croatia. According to the Croatian Anthropological Society in their Collegium Antropologicum (Volumes 15-16) the language base of the Korcula dialect is Chakavian Croatian (it is also intermixed with Shokavian).[20] The dialect has remnants of the extinct Romance language, Dalmatian. [21] The Dalmatian remnants within the dialect have been referred to as Corzulot. Additionally it has influences of Venetian.
  • Defora in old Venetian means "from the outside".

Local folk song: Zbogom, Moja Bobovišća Vala

Zbogom, Moja Bobovišća vala
kad san kanta, sva is odavala
Druga mladost kad bude kantati
valo moja, nemoj odavati"
Zbogom, moje sve od Blata divnje
s kojima san uźa pasat vrime
(traditional)

Translation:

Goodbye my Bobvisca bay
When I sang ...

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica-Dalmatia:
    • Venetian rule, established in 1420 when the king of Croatia, Ladislas of Naples, ceded the country to the Venetian republic, ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to Austria under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), Dalmatia became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede Dalmatia to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
    • Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between Italy and Yugoslavia gave all Dalmatia to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo.
  2. ^ Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic: By Andrew Archibald Paton. Chapter 4. The Dalmatian Archipelago.p164
    • Andrew Archibald Paton (1811-1874) was a British diplomat and writer from the 19 century.
  3. ^ Otok Korčula (2nd edition) by Marinko Gjivoje, Zagreb 1969.
    • The book outlines A-Z about the island of Korcula, from traditions, history, culture to wildlife, politics & geography. Page 46-47: Piruzović .
  4. ^ Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and and Early Medieval Dalmatia by Danijel Dzino (p43)
  5. ^ Korcula the island became part of the Roman province of Dalmatia
  6. ^ When Ethnicity Did not Matter in the Balkans: by John Van Antwerp Fine. p103
  7. ^ History-Korcula.net Marko Marelic-S. Francisco-USA
  8. ^ According to recent studies done at the University of Zadar, Slavs on the island of Korcula accepted Christianity fully in the 14th and 15th Century. Reference from: University of Zadar-Sociogeographic Transformation of the Western Part of Korcula Island by Lena Mirosevic-2008/page 161
  9. ^ Historical Compendium of the Island of Curzola by Nicolo Ostoic (p7)
  10. ^ The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 11 : The High Empire, AD 70-192 by Peter Rathbone
  11. ^ The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes,ISBN 0631198075-1996
  12. ^ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index
  13. ^ Hrcak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia: Lumbarda Psephisma, the Oldest Document about the Division of Land Parcels in Croatia from the Beginning of the 4th or 3rd Century BC by Miljenko Solaric & Nikola Solaic (University of Zagreb).
  14. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica.
    • The Roman province of Illyricum stretched from the Drilon River (the Drin, in modern Albania) in the south to Istria (modem Slovenia and Croatia)
  15. ^ Croatian Adriatic: History, Culture, Art & Natural beauties
  16. ^ John Everett-Healu. "Dalmatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Encyclopedia.com
  17. ^ A History of the Croatian by Francis Ralph Preveden (1955)
  18. ^ Grammatica della lingua Illirica by Francesco Maria Appendini
  19. ^ Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
    • Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (October 5, 1797 – October 29, 1875) was an English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British Egyptology".
  20. ^ Collegium Antropologicum, Volumes 15-16 by Croatian Anthropological Society-1991.Pages 312 & 318.
  21. ^ Collegium Antropologicum, Volumes 15-16 by Croatian Anthropological Society-1991. Page 311.
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