O periodičkom tisku za hrvatsku mladež u Istri početkom XX. stoljeća
CONCERNING PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS AIMED AT CROATIAN YOUTH IN ISTRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Even following the Austro-Hungarian Agreement, by which it was attached to the Austrian part of the Habsburg Monarchy; Istria found itself in difficult circumstances, right until the collapse of the Monarchy. It continued to remain isolated from other Croatian lands. Even though the majority of its population consisted of Croats or Slovenes, Italian was the official language of Istria. Favouritism on the part of the Austrian authorities meant that the Italians of Istria enjoyed control over a majority of the district assemblies, in the Provincial Committee, and in the Istrian Sabor (parliament). The struggle of the Istrian Croats to preserve their own national identity took place in rather difficult conditions, but gradually, it was ever more successful. A significant growth in the number of Croatian primary schools took place after the founding of the Society of St. Cyril and Methodius in Istria in 1893. The Croats of Istria also founded and supported their own political newspapers and specialized journals. They likewise established literary journals for their youth: Mladi Istran [Young Istrian] (1906-1907), which was published in Mali Lošinj, and Mladi Istranin [Young Istrian] (1909) and Mladi Hrvat [Young Croat] (1910-1914), which were published in Opatija. These journals had an important national-educational and cultural-historical mandate, and were to play a part in the national integration of the Croatian youth of Istria, thus they became interwoven in the fabric of the cultural history of Istria in this era.

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