Contrary to one of the usual narratives one will likely encounter when researching the sad recent history of Dalmatia - that the
Italian intellectual class during the Risorgimento was composed of
anti-Slav chauvinists motivated by hatred for the "native"...
If one visits the Wikipedia page of 17th century Dalmatian historian Giovanni Lucio (Latin: Ioannes Lucius), one will read that he is widely regarded in Croatia as "the father of modern Croatian historiography". By the dogged efforts of Croatian...
The term "wikiality" was famously coined by comedian Stephen Colbert when, live on his satirical late-night show The Colbert Report, he deliberately added false claims to several Wikipedia entries, and encouraged his viewers to do the same. Colbert...
One of the more prominent members of Toronto's community of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian exiles was Luigi (Gino) Russignan, native of Isola d'Istria. The company bearing the Russignan family's nickname - Caffè Barzula - is Canada's best-selling...
(Excerpt from a longer article by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella published in Corriere della Sera, June 17th, 2010)
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[..] as the historic meeting at Trieste between Italian President Giorgio...
(Excerpt from a longer article by Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella published in Corriere della Sera, June 17th, 2010)
"Zajednica Talijana Zadar." It's written beside the doorbell of the Italian Community of Zara.
But in Croatian?
"It was...
