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Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century

Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples

by Boris Golec (Author)
©2017 Monographs 172 Pages
Series: Thought, Society, Culture, Volume 3

Summary

This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing the original Slovene name, which at that time had a «pre-national» content and was also used by a considerable portion of today’s Croats. Extending the use of the Croatian name to the Slovene border regions was a component of a broader and long-term process. The author explores how this process was triggered by tectonic geopolitical changes resulting from the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin.

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Boris Golec

Temporary Croatization of Parts
of Eastern Slovenia
between the Sixteenth
and Ninetee nth Century

Changing Identities at the Meeting Point
of Related Peoples

About the author

Boris Golec is a senior researcher at the Milko Kos Historical Institute at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. His research interest also includes the social and cultural history in Slovenia and the neighboring countries in the early Modern Age.

About the book

This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing the original Slovene name, which at that time had a “pre-national” content and was also used by a considerable portion of today’s Croats. Extending the use of the Croatian name to the Slovene border regions was a component of a broader and long-term process. The author explores how this process was triggered by tectonic geopolitical changes resulting from the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin.

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Presentation of the Issue and Research to Date

All national historiographies have topics that have been ignored and left unstudied either because of their scant documentation or due to “political correctness,” which in extreme cases can even lead to tabooization. Understudied issues often include the names of languages, territories, or groups of people if they disturb the established concept of ethnogenesis and the formation of a specific modern nation. It seems especially “unrewarding” for a national history to study the phenomena on its own territory and in part of the nation’s body that used to be called the same as the territory, language, and name of any other modern nation, especially a neighboring one or one with a similar language, regardless of how distant or minor this phenomenon may be.

In two neighboring South Slavic nations, the Slovenes (Slovenci) and Croats (Hrvati), such phenomena were typical from the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. Both national historiographies continued to ignore them for a long time, which was easy because neither the Slovene nor the Croatian side ever built any historical, political, or territorial pretensions on their basis. Thus the issue of the self-designation Slovenci (otherwise ‘Slovenes’) for the inhabitants of the historical region of Slavonia (today’s northern, continental Croatia), which had its center in Zagreb (now the capital of Croatia), and their language, which continued to be referred to as slovenski (otherwise ‘Slovene’) deep into the Modern Age, remains systematically unexplored in Croatian historiography. To date, this issue has only been studied within the context of standard language and left to Croatian language history; however, a comprehensive study of the complexity of the broader phenomenon, which also includes the ethnonym and self-identification of the “Slovenes” before they became Croats,1 still remains to be conducted. Slovene historiography is dealing with a similar, albeit geographically smaller, phenomenon. It more or less intentionally ignored reports on the existence of the Croatian linguonym and ethnonym in four eastern Slovene regions along the Croatian border, even though the Croats and Croatian language in two of these regions were already discussed fairly extensively by the polymath Johann Weikhard von Valvasor as early as the seventeenth century.2←7 | 8→

Details

Pages
172
Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9783631721261
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631721278
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631721285
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631721292
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (June)
Keywords
Slovenes Croats Changing ethnonym Changing linguonym Cultural influences Neighboring nations
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017, 172 pp., 11 b/w ill.

Biographical notes

Boris Golec (Author)

Boris Golec is a senior researcher at the Milko Kos Historical Institute at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. His research interest also includes the social and cultural history in Slovenia and the neighboring countries in the early Modern Age.

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