Original scientific paper

Zabiokovlje as a space of permeation

Slavko Kukić

Abstract

This paper varies cultural, mental, and general identity intertwining between the population of the region behind the Biokovo mountain, or Zabiokovlje as the region was marked in 1970s. seventies of last century. Today the term Zabiokovlje is frequently used to denote only one part of an earlier united space because this area, due to new
political realities, has been divided between the two countries:Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper, however, aims to suggest that such division isn unnatural because the case is of a unifi ed whole culturally and mentally, as well as from the perspective of
national idenitity, and identity as such.

Keywords

Herzegovina; Herzegovinian identity; national identity; language; sense of common belonging

Hrčak ID:

117711

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/117711

Publication date:

22.3.2011.

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