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- Title
»TA ROŽINA DOLINA« MED DVEMA OGNJEMA: POGLED NA ZGODOVINSKE RAZLOGE ZA RAZDELJENO KULTURNO IDENTITETO V REZIJI IN KRATEK OPIS DANAŠNJIH KONFLIKTOV.
- Authors
VALENTINČIČ, Dejan
- Abstract
Slavic people inhabited the Resia/Rezija Valley (currently part of Italy) at the same time as the rest of actual Slovenian ethnic territory - from the 6th century onward. As the valley is fairly remote, contacts with neighbouring Slovenian speaking areas were limited in the past. After 1866, when Resia and the so called Venetia Slovenia, i.e. the Torre/Ter and Natisone/Nadiža Valleys, became a part of Italy, the contacts with the neighbouring Soča Valley (in present-day Slovenia) became even more limited. That is why the Resian population did not develop a sense of Slovenian national identity, but a local "Resian" identity that was later joined by the sense of belonging to the Italian state. Nevertheless, a part of the population realised their Resian dialect is a Slovenian dialect and learned the Standard Slovenian language. However, ano ther part of the population strongly opposes that. Today, the different identities are a key political and ideological issue in Resia. In the first part of the paper the historical reasons for the present situation are discussed in detail. In the second part, four current key conflicts in this valley are analysed. The debated issues concern the questions such as, whether the Municipality of Resia should be included in the Slovenian legislation for the protection of minorities or which alphabet should be used to write the Resian dialect. Furthermore the rising tensions over the first bilingual identity card and the conflict concerning the management of the "Ta rozajanska külturska hiša na Ravanci", i.e. the Resian Cultural House, are discussed.
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p401
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2016.16