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- Title
Redefining Fiumians: Flag Usage and the Ambiguities of the Nation-Building Process in the Former Habsburg-Hungarian corpus separatum , 1914–1924.
- Authors
Jeličić, Ivan
- Abstract
In the late Habsburg period, Fiume's municipal flag became the representative symbol of local patriotism. This article argues that local patriotism in Fiume was a form of identification that combined features of modern nationalism with loyalties to the Habsburg Empire. With the disappearance of the dual monarchy and the subsequent transition period (1918–24), the Fiumian flag was redefined and contested both as a symbol of Italian irredentism realised through annexation and of Fiume's independence by local autonomists. Thus, the article demonstrates how local patriotism survived the empire's dissolution and how attachment to a locality was a significant feature of European political life in general during that period.
- Subjects
NATION building; CITIES &; towns; MUNICIPAL government; PATRIOTISM; NATIONALISM; MONARCHY
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 2, p685
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777322000753