Triplex confinium. Međunarodni istraživački projekt: ciljevi, pristupi, metodi
Triplex Confinium. The International Research Project: objectives, approaches, methods

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper Triplex Confinium answers the question, why the International Research Project Triplex Confinium has come to existence in 1977. It is a joint project of the Institute of the Croatian history, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Department of South European History, University of Graz and the Institute of South East Europe, Mid-European University, Budapest as a multinational, interdisciplinary, integrated project of border areas history long lasting in the early new century. Triplex Confinium was internationally defined in 1699 as the junction of three borders, Republic of Venice, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at the same time being the research issue of the more levels context, but a methaphor of the scholarly project to consider critically the heritage found on more boarders, as the meeting place of cultures and civilizations. After three international conferences (Budapest 1997, Graz 1998, Zadar 2000) and a series of new initiatives, the Project is open still.

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