Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/m8vqrtx7q9

Monuments to the fallen warriors of the First World War in Dalmatia – forgotten memory sites

Ljiljana Dobrovšak orcid.org/0000-0002-1899-2306 ; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences
Vijoleta Herman Kaurić orcid.org/0000-0003-2682-7439 ; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The Dalmatians, same as all the other citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy,
took part in the war operations of the Monarchy in all battlefields, although they
fought most intensely on the Isonzo Front. Dalmatia as a coastal country was a war
zone as of Italy’s entry into the war. We still do not have the exact figures of the Dalmatian
soldiers who were killed during the First World War, but as soon as news of
the wounded and the dead began to arrive, the families of the victims tried to keep
their memory in some way, especially as most of them were buried outside their place
of birth. Parts of local cemeteries, where soldiers who died in hospitals were buried,
became military cemeteries. Monuments to the fallen warriors had already been erected
during the war in some Dalmatian places as memory sites for the victims of the First
World War. Some of the war monuments were erected a decade after the end of the war,
and others on the Centenary (2014–2018). Here, the authors will present where all the
monuments to the fallen warriors were placed and in what circumstances, and whether
these monuments became memory sites of the First World War or whether they were
simply forgotten.

Keywords

First World War; memory sites; Dalmatia; monuments.

Hrčak ID:

346836

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/346836

Publication date:

24.4.2026.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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