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Istria


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DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405189224.2011.x


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Peninsula of the northern Adriatic lying between trieste and Rijeka (see fiume ), now divided between croatia and slovenia . Following the collapse of the habsburg empire , the 1919 treaty of st germain transferred sovereignty over this ethnically complex region to Italy. Istria, with its substantial Slavic population, subsequently became a source of tension with yugoslavia . It was eventually taken over by tito's regime at the end of World War II. Istria then remained under the rule of Belgrade until Yugoslavia itself was broken up by the civil war of the early 1990s. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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