Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mnlqgc5n5y
CROATIAN-SLOVENIAN RELATIONS IN THE BORDER ZONE OF VARAŽDIN COUNTY
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb
Abstract
The author provides information on Croatian-Slovenian relations in the
Varaždin County. 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 Nadkrižovljan, Križovljan, Višnjica, Voća, Cvetlin and Bednja, the
author provides information on the intensity of contacts between Croats and
Slovenes in the border zone of Varaždin County. It can be seen that these links
have been tight over a nearly five hundred-year history in the common state.
Interviews conducted in the area of the City of Lepoglava and the Municipality
of Donja Voća and the Municipality of Bednja show that the inhabitants of the
border zones have always been economically, socially and family-related to
nearby Slovenia.
Keywords
Varaždin County; Croatian-Slovenian relations; Lepoglava; Donja Voća; Cestica; Bednja.
Hrčak ID:
246627
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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