Original scientific paper
TRACING CROATIAN OASES IN THE REGION OF IRPINIA IN SOUTHERN ITALY
Jelka Vince-Pallua
Abstract
In the province of Molise in southern Italy Croatian villages founded in the fifteenth century still exist. Not much was known about them until the end of last century when some scholars began to investigate ethnographic and philological
questions concerning the Croats of Molise who escaped from the Turks to the other side of the Adriatic. Most current investigation is also devoted to Molise since this is the only region where Croatian culture has survived without being fused with Italian.
The aim of this contribution is to reconstruct the traces of Croatian colonies in another part of Italy, south-east of Molise - a border region between the provinces of Campania and Puglia (Irpinia). With this aim in mind, written material
- customs and poems, archives, historical sources, toponyms etc. - has been taken into consideration. The time of arrival of the new inhabitants in this part of the Neopoletan kingdom is also discussed.
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214558
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Publication date:
1.5.1993.
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