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Originally Posted by Zrinski
To address some of CZ's rants:
1. Rijeka (Fiume) had Italian majority but only when they separated Sušak (today's Rijeka suburb) from the municipality. Rijeka was a divided city during that time. When we count both Rijeka and separated Sušak part it was 50,5% Croats and 49,5 Italians.
2. Islands were not populated by Italians, Italian communities were mainly based on the Adriatic coast in larger cities such as already mentioned Rijeka, and Zadar.
3. Dubrovnik was not Italian, ever. The town was overwhelmingly Croatian. The Republic of Ragusa however was trying to preserve it's roots within it's latin/romance cultural heritage. The latin-romance language was also a way to distinguish the nobility from the commoners. The English kings spoke French, that doesn't mean they were French. Also at the same time those same nobles gave some of the fines writers, scientists, composers, playwrights and so on. Among few: Marin Drzic, Dzore Drzic, Sisko Mencetic, Dinko Zlataric, Ivan Bunic Vucic, Ivan Gundulic, Rudjer Boskovic, Luka Sorkocevic....and so on, and so on....
4. The only largely Italian populated area was western coast of Istria, the inner Istria was Croatian. The eastern coast wasn't even part of Istrian county/markgravate but was through history part of Croatian duchy and later kingdom.
5. By 'western powers' I meant 'the Alliance' in general. Soviet Union was among the allies.
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I was refering to just Fiume, not Susak.
Actually the Islands did.
Dubrovnik was Italian but it had large slavic population. Plus it's debatable, given that few records exist from this time regarding ethnic makeups in most of europe. Plus, the language the Slavs spoke in Ragusa is a precursor to Croatia, and it's debatable since historical documents refer to them as Slavs and in the early 19th century a large number of Slavs in Ragusa had the view that they were serbs (
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=003...2-O&size=LARGE, this is not a propaganda site). Also, just because your writers, intellectuals are based in a city means nothing since by that logic I should be claiming the Timisaora in Romania is a Serb city because a large number of Serbian writers and so forth were based their even though that city never was majority Serbian.
I wrote done eastern coastline, but I meant the western coastline- so you are right about that.