Original scientific paper
Relations between Dalmatia and Hungary in 1848-49 (A Depiction of the Hungarians in Zora Dalmatinska)
Arijana Kolak
Abstract
The creation of the image of the Hungarians on the pages of the journal Zora dalmatinska, [Dalmatian Dawn] which during the Revolution of 1848–1849 became the political organ of the group of supporters of the Croatian national idea in Dalmatia, may be followed on two levels: on the one hand through the reflections of the public opinion of the Ban’s Croatia exercised through the contribution of the collaborators of Zora dalmatinska living there, and through the increased interest of the contributors and readers of the journal from Dalmatia for Croato-Hungarian relations and for the events happening in the Hungarian half of the Monarchy in general. The analysis of the articles dealing with such topics shows that the picture of the Hungarians created by the contributors from the Ban’s Croatia was stereotypical and negative. The image of the Hungarians among the Dalmatian public was also mainly negative, first and foremost because it was highly influenced by the aforementioned contributions. However, that image was not constant and changed over time, and thus, from February 1849, a visibly milder attitude prevailed, and from that time onwards neither the Croatian nor the Dalmatian public treated the Hungarians in general as responsible for the current problems, but primarily blamed Kossuth and the Hungarian nobility.
Keywords
Zora dalmatinska; relations between Dalmatia and Hungary; the ‘image of the other’; the Revolution of 1848–1849
Hrčak ID:
7452
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2005.
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