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https://doi.org/10.58565/vda.3.1.16
Construction of Home Guard Barracks in the context of national and modernization processes in Dubrovnik at the end of the 19th century
Sanja Curić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-7104
; Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Hrvatska
Nikša Selmani
orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-4780
; Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Dubrovnik played a significant role in the processes of Croatian national integration during the 19th century, especially in its initial stages when its literary heritage took part in defining the Croatian national cultural–linguistic entity. Nevertheless, awareness of the lost, centuries-old sovereignty encouraged a strong local patriotic fervour among a part of Dubrovnik’s civic elite, but also among the so-called the “youth of Dubrovnik”. Being dissatisfied with Dubrovnik’s provincial position, traffic isolation, economic and demographic stagnation, and the absence of starting capital and vision, they no longer saw the future of Dubrovnik in the Croatian integration variant, but were approaching the Serbian one, probably under the influence of the political affirmation of Serbia as an independent South Slavic state. Thus, in Dubrovnik, besides the People’s Party, which strived for unification of Croatia and Dalmatia and its opposition, the Autonomist Party, a movement of local Serbian Catholics also appeared. In the period from 1890 to 1899, a political coalition of the Serbian Catholics and the Autonomists governed the city, trying to find and develop its potential. One such project was the construction and rental of the Home Guard Barracks in Gruž. Although the political coalition of the Serbian Catholics and the Autonomists tried to present this and other projects as its political success, looking at the wider context of Dubrovnik after the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, when, due to military and partly economic reasons, a stronger integration of the far south of Dalmatia and the rest of the Monarchy took place, we can conclude that the local government was not the initiator of changes, it was just trying to adapt to the new situation in which it was already clear that Dubrovnik and its surroundings completely took part in the Croatian
national integration matrix.
Ključne riječi
Dubrovnik; Gruž; home guard barracks; national integration; Serbian Catholics
Hrčak ID:
293981
URI
Datum izdavanja:
24.2.2023.
Posjeta: 478 *