Implications of the Balkan Wars for the Yugoslav Idea among Slovenians in Trieste. Issue 2 (4th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ivašković, Igor
• Is Part Of: Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern studies. Volume 21:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 203
• Publication Date: 2019-03-04
• Subjects: Balkan Peninsula -- Periodicals; Balkan Peninsula -- Statistics -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Periodicals; 949.6
• DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1367567
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1944-8953

Abstract

Abstract: The article analyses the Yugoslav idea among Slovenian liberals from Trieste in the period before the First World War. Initially, they favoured the idea of a third politico-administrative unit that would incorporate Trieste within the Habsburg Monarchy. In this setting, they built a partnership with the Croatian political representatives. The first round of the Balkan wars caused euphoria among Slovenian liberals in Trieste and stimulated the development of a new political framework—namely, the federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy, and its integration with the Union of Balkan Slavs. However, the second round of the Balkan wars imposed a reduction of the Slovenian liberals' initial plan; they excluded the Bulgarians from the Southern Slav political framework, thereby accepting the Serbian vision of the state.