Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.58.1.3
Croatian-Slovenian Relations in the Eastern Žumberak Area
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Barbara Riman
; Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The authors provide information on Croatian-Slovenian relations in the Žumberak. The area
of the border in scientific terms has been very rarely viewed through the testimonies of people
living in the border area, and therefore this research is different, since it is based on the experience
of people living along the Croatian-Slovenian border. The study found that residents
on both sides of the border were much more oriented towards each other than connected to
their regional centers. The border has greatly disrupted relations between Croats and Slovenes
on both sides. This paper seeks to show in what ways there were links between one space and
another, and how much those links were broken after the 1991 border was established. The
research applied the historical and ethnological approach that is evident from the collection of
data from the registers of the deceased and the married, or from the method of oral history and
storytelling. Based on the registers of deceased and married parishes in Stojdraga, Mrzlo Polje,
Sošice and Kalje, the author provides information on the intensity of contacts between Croats
and Slovenes in the border zone of Žumberak. It can be seen that these links have been tight
over a nearly five hundred-year history in the common state, but that marital relationships
were limited because of differences in religion. Interviews conducted in the area of the City
of Samobor and the Municipality of Žumberak show that the inhabitants of the border zones
have always been economically, socially and family-related to nearby Slovenia.
Keywords
Žumberak; Croatian-Slovenian relations; Sošice; Samobor; border zone
Hrčak ID:
237382
URI
Publication date:
27.4.2020.
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