User talk:Peter Z./History Notes
Peter Z's Notes
- Firstly it appears to me that the region (former Yugoslavia) has problems with interpreting multicultural and multiethnic history (& societies).
Island of Korcula
Signor Arneri stated: [1]
| “ | 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 | ” |
According to Marinko Gjivoje, Perussich is Piruzović''.[2]
Naski: Naski (ours) or Illirskee is a Slavonic Dialect. Taken from Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina by John Gardner Wilkinson. Published in 1848 (p33). [3] Editors notes: Naski or Naški (Blato was called Blatta)
- Grammatica della lingua Illirica by Francesco Maria Appendini (Ragusan/Italian)[4]
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 ...
- Indigenous population of Korcula were Illyrians.[5] It is believed that the Illyrians arrived in the Balkans approximately 1000 BC.[6]
- Greek colony was founded on Korcula.[7] 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.
- The island became part of the Roman province of Illyricum. [8] After the Illyrian Wars. Roman migration followed and Roman citizens arrived on the island. [9] In 10 AD Illyricum was split into two provinces, Pannonia and Dalmatia.[10] 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 6th and 7th centuries, brought the Slavic peoples[11] into the Dalmatia region. Croatians (Slavs) arrived on the island in the 8th century.
- Second Slavic Migration in 17th & 18th century.
Additional:
- Venetian & Ragusan families.
- Korcula originally a Latin town. Latter became Latin/Venetian/Slavic (Croatian).
- Cara originally Slavic (Croatian) village.
The Statute of Korcula was first drafted in 1214. It was probably written by Latin & Slavic (Croatian) Nobility.
- "In 1262 the Venetians praised the Slavs and Latins on the island of Korcula for submitting to the prince Venice" [12]
In 16 century Stone writings in Zavalatica are dedicated to events from 889 AD. It describes a clash between the Croatians and the Venetian army. Marinko Gjivoje wrote about the find in 1972. The stone writings states: Hrvat Dalmatinac in its writings.Hrvat means Croatian in Slavic.[13]
Note: Croatian (Slavs)[14][15][16][17] started to be referred too (& referred themselves) mainly as Dalmatians Slavs or Dalmatians, sometime post 11th Century.[18]
Korcula's old name was Corzula. The Old-Slavic term was Krkar.
(Korcula a historically a multicultural and multiethnic society)
If we put aside political correctness
If we put aside political correctness, one could ask the question what happened to the Latin families [19] on the island of Korcula (Corcyra Nigra) in the 8th century when the Croatians invaded.
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. It’s quite possible that the old town of Korcula was fortified and held out against the invaders. The town’s location is well placed to defend it self. Over the centuries it has had a strategic military position. The town of Korcula and Dubrovnik may have had very similar early histories.
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. 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). [20]
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. The Latin population eventually started to return to the island in larger numbers thus creating a historic multicultural and multiethnic society.
Dalmatians of Latin ancestry brought Mediterranean cultural to the Slavs. Christianity was one aspect of this. In essence the Croatians on the island were Romanized.
In 889 AD it is documented that there was a clash between the local Croatians (from Cara) and the Venetian army. The story is part of the Island of Korcula's oral history.
Latin/Illyrian/Slavic communities history of the historic Republic of Ragusa & Republic of Venice became a political football for the former Communist Yugoslavia.
- Republic of Ragusa was set up by Latin/Illyrian families.
- Republic of Venice was set up by Latin families.
(Venice acquired Slavic & other Latin populations through conquering)
Slavic communities later became part of these City States, which later became Republics.
Famous mixed marriages within these communities :
- Roger Joseph Boskovich (Republic of Ragusa)
- Fausto Veranzio (Republic of Venice)
Parents were Italian & Croatian.
Austro-Hungarian census 1816 registered: 66 000 Italian speaking people among the 301 000 inhabitants of Dalmatia. (ref from: Montani, Carlo. Venezia Giulia, Dalmazia - Sommario Storico - An Historical Outline)
Republic of Ragusa
Republic of Ragusa was set up by Latin/Illyrian families. The Republic's city, Ragusa (today called Dubrovnik) was established in the 7th century, post Slavic and Avar invasions. The refugees from Epidaurum (a Roman city) built the settlement in Dalmatia, today in southernmost modern Croatia. Over the centuries the City State-Ragusa started to have relations with the Slavic hinterland, then called Red Croatia (this term for the region ceased to be used from the 11th century onwards). Ragusa itself became an independent state in 1358.
The Croatians (Slavs), some time in the middle ages started to be part of the Republic's population.The Croatians from the 11th century onwards were mainly called Dalmatians Slavs. The 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake,[21] which destroyed the greater part of Dubrovnik has been cited as a turning point for the Republic's ethnic population make up. The Slavic population in the Republic would have been Romanised (adopted Latin culture).
In John Van Antwerp Fine's book "When Ethnicity did not Matter in the Balkans" the population of the Republic in the 15-century was describe as mainly Slavic. This is very plausible, (that by the 15 century) the surrounding area of the city of Dubrovnik, the Slavs would have been in the majority.[22]
There is a theory that the actual Croatisation (Pan-Slavism) [23] of the region started to happen in the 19-century, with the Republic becoming part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (then called the Habsburg Monarchy). The second theory is that it was much earlier.
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". He was in Dubrovnik in 1848, this is what he wrote in his "Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina":
- Their language though gradually falling into Venetianisms of the other Dalmatians towns, still retains some of that pure Italian idiom, for which was always noted. (page 362)
- Italian is spoken in all the seaports of Dalmatia, but the language of the country is a dialect of the Slavonic, which alone is used by peasants in the interior.(page 4)
Editor's notes: It's quite possible that the Republic was for centuries a multicultural and multiethnic society! It's ruling class were of mostly of Latin decent, but not all! Peter Z. 13:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre ... By John Van Antwerp Fine
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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".
- ^ Grammatica della lingua Illirica by Francesco Maria Appendini Section of the book
- ^ The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 11 : The High Empire, AD 70-192 by Peter Rathbone
- ^ The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes,ISBN 0631198075-1996
- ^ 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
- ^ 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)
- ^ Croatian Adriatic: History, Culture, Art & Natural beauties
- ^ John Everett-Healu. "Dalmatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Oxford University Press. 2005. Encyclopedia.com
- ^ A History of the Croatian by Francis Ralph Preveden (1955)
- ^ When Ethnicity Did not Matter in the Balkans: by John Van Antwerp Fine. p103
- ^ History-Korcula.net Marko Marelic-S. Francisco-USA
- ^ Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 by Paul Stephenson
- ^ Presbyter Diocleas: De Regno Sclavorum; Ioannes Lucius: De Regno Dalmatie et Croatiae (Amsterdam 1666) 287-302; Schwandtner Scriptores Rerum Hungaricarum III (Vienna) 174; Sl. Mijušković: Letopis Popa Dukljanina-1967)
- ^ Flavius Blondus: Historiarum ab Inclinatione Romani Imperii, dec II, lib II (Venetiae 1483, f. 115 r; ed Basilea 1559) 177.
- ^ Andrea Dandolo (1300-1354), the Venetian author of Chronicle of Dalmatia, who writes of Croatian lands (Dalmatian Kingdom), reiterated the boundaries of Red Croatia
- ^ When Ethnicity Did not Matter in the Balkans: by John Van Antwerp Fine. p162
- ^ The island became part of the Roman province of Dalmatia
- ^ According to recent studies done at the University of Zadar, Croatians 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
- ^ Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries by Eystein Sverre Husebye
- ^ When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: by John Van Antwerp Fine
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica:19th-century movement that recognized a common ethnic background among the various Slav peoples of eastern and east central Europe and sought to unite those peoples for the achievement of common cultural and political goals. The Pan-Slav movement originally was formed in the first half of the 19th century by West and South Slav intellectuals, scholars, and poets, whose peoples were at that time also developing their sense of national identity.
