Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2021.58.141.907
Stari Grad on the island of Hvar in Croatian folk revival - administrative structures and political life
Marijo Franetović
Abstract
The collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the first Austrian (1797-1806) and French administration (1806-1813), after which the Venetian estates (Venetian Dalmatia and the Bay of Kotor) and the former Republic of Dubrovnik came to power, formed the Habsburg Monarchy administrative unit - the Kingdom of Dalmatia, directly subordinated to Vienna.
The paper is an overview of the structure of the administration and judiciary, the political situation until 1848 and 1861, when elements of parliamentary democracy and local self-government were introduced through the Dalmatian Parliament in Zadar. Until the fall of Bach's neo-absolutism in 1861, municipalities were not electoral-representative institutions. Two political options emerge, one opposing the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia, seeking the Italian language as the official language, emphasizing first the Slavo-Dalmatian and later the Italian identity (Italians, autonomists). In contrast, part of the citizens, mostly of popular origin, affirms the Croatian identity, seeks the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia and Slavonia, and the introduction of the Croatian language in the administration, judiciary, education (populists, annexationists). Vienna supports the autonomists, not wanting Croatian national and state integration. Due to the electoral system, the Narodnjaci lost the elections to the Dalmatian Parliament in 1861 and 1864, but won the first municipal elections in 1865-1868, and in 1870 the elections to the Parliament.
The rest of the paper deals with the specifics of the Stari Grad, where the affirmation of the people is slower. Stari Grad has been a municipality since 1823, part of the Hvar district, and since 1852 the seat of the district court. The reputation of local autonomist medical doctors (Gazzari and Nisiteo) led the younger generation of Croatian people to their camp, although some of the leading figures originated from Stari Grad (Vranković, Biankini and Ljubić). The political party Narodnjaci won in 1887, when the next generation of Croatian intelligentsia was established, the sons of common people (farmers, fishermen and sailors) were strengthened by the development of the economy - wine trade and maritime affairs in the second half of the 19th century.
Keywords
Stari Grad; admin istrative and political structures; political situation
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262226
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Publication date:
7.9.2021.
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