Pro tempore, No. 15, 2020.
Stručni rad
The Position of Dalmatia and the Croatian National Revival Movement until 1883
Petar Bešlić
Sažetak
This article tries to decipher the reasons why Dalmatian social strata accepted the Croatian national idea and the use of the Croatian language in public life. These reasons are analysed by covering a wider time span, as well as by observing several aspects related to administration, political circumstances, language, population composition and Croatian national revival tendencies. Using the available literature, the article particularly emphasizes the 1860s when the South Slavic (Illyrian) idea was introduced. The idea was used by Dalmatian revivalists in order to politically organise themselves and start implementing a kind of agenda among all social strata with the aim of transforming national feeling. With the help of proactive efforts of Dalmatian revivalists in introducing the Croatian language within higher education, reading rooms became the key places for spreading originally Illyrian, and then Croatian national ideas. Despite the supporters of the Slavo-Dalmatian ideology, the efforts of the Dalmatian revivalists in transforming the national consciousness and introducing the Croatian language into official use in the territory of the Kingdom of Dalmatia prevailed.
Ključne riječi
Dalmatia; Habsburg Monarchy; 19th century; Croatian national revival; Croatian language; Narodna stranka (People’s Party); Autonomaška stranka (The Autonomist Party)
Hrčak ID:
279044
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2020.
Posjeta: 617 *