Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party Partito Autonomista Autonomaška stranka | |
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The Autonomist Party (
History
Traditionally linked to the idea of a Dalmatian nation advocated by Niccolò Tommaseo in the first half of the 19th century and regarded as a meeting of the Latin world with the Slavic world, initially the party also attracted the sympathies of several Slavic Dalmatians, while maintaining an undisputed open to the Italian cultural world.
The Dalmatian branch of the
A similar but independent political development occurred in
As in Zara the party remained in power up to 1914, and both cities, although claimed by the
Antonio Bajamonti, the most prominent Autonomist in the history of the party, once remarked:
No joy, only pain and tears, is brought by being a part of the Italian party in Dalmatia. We, the Italians of Dalmatia, retain a single right: to suffer.[4]
Count Francesco Borelli Dalmatian deputy, argued for the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, claiming that it had no connection whatsoever with Croatia. Though he admitted that the majority of the population was Slavic in language, mentality and outlook, he claimed that Dalmatia's "higher" culture was Italian.[5]
At the beginning of the 20th century the Autonomist Party, having lost his majority in nearly all Dalmatia, started to be dominated by a group of Dalmatian Italians from Zara, led by Luigi Ziliotto and Giovanni Bugatto, who supported Italian irredentism in Dalmatia: the party was suppressed in 1915 when Italy declared war on Austria during World War I.[6]
Diet of Dalmatia elections
- 1861: 12/41
- 1864: 32/41
- 1867: 26/41
- 1870: 16/41
- 1876: 11/41
- 1883: 7/41
- 1889: 6/41
- 1895: 6/41
- 1901: 6/41
References
- ^ a b Maura Hametz. In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court. Fordham University Press, 2012.
- ^ Ivo Goldstein. Croatia: A History. 2nd edition. C. Hurst & Co, 1999, 2001. P. 80.
- ISBN 9780802099310.
- ^ A.Bajamonti, Discorso inaugurale della Società Politica dalmata, Split 1886
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- ^ Monzali, Luciano. Italians of Dalmatia p.323
Sources
- Renzo de' Vidovich, Albo d'Oro delle Famiglie Nobili Patrizie e Illustri nel Regno di Dalmazia, Fondazione Scientifico Culturale Rustia Traine, Trieste 2004
- L.Monzali, Italiani di Dalmazia. Dal Risorgimento alla Grande Guerra, Le Lettere, Firenze 2004
- L.Monzali, Italiani di Dalmazia. 1914-1924, Le Lettere, Firenze 2007.
- Monzali, Luciano.Italiani di Dalmazia Toronto University Press. Toronto, 2009
- I. Perić, Dalmatinski sabor 1861-1912 (1918), Zadar 1978.
- Duško Kečkemet, Bajamonti i Split, Slobodna Dalmacija: Split 2007.
- Grga Novak, Prošlost Dalmacije knjiga druga, Marjan tisak: Split 2004.
- Josip Vrandečić, Dalmatinski autonomistički pokret u XIX. stoljeću, Zagreb, 2002.