NEŠTO KULTUROLOŠKIH RAZMIŠLJANJA O REGIONALIZMU U HRVATSKOJ I EUROPI
SOME CULTUROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING REGIONALlSM IN CROATIA AND EUROPE

Summary/Abstract: If we distinguish between regionally and centrally governed or organized countries in Europe, the middle Europe (in a ve/}' broad sense) will prove to be traditionally a largely regionalized area. This pattern applies fully to Croatia, where there were always several cultural and economic centres of importance in Dalmatia, Slavonia and elsewhere. The traditional pattern of government through a king or a vice-roy, ban, and through regional administrators, župans, equally fits into the picture. The cultural history, the Mediterranean renaissanee in badly dismembered Croatian lands and the 19th centu/}' continental cultural revival in a Croatia on the way towards the future unification correspond with the European, especially the middle European pattern. The oomplementery character of the two revivals and the continuity between them has given the intellectual milieu of Zagreb since the continental revival the necessary preconditions to represent appropriately the whole of Croatia and of its heritage. Thus we have in Croatia a great variety among regions, which should be further cultivated, on one hand, and a centre, Zagreb, where people of all regions are well represented, and wherefrom the regions may be properly coordinated.

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