Around the mid-second millennium BC, some inhumations and disarticulated bones were buried in the area of the fortification lines at the Coppa Nevigata settlement (northern Apulia). This funerary ...custom appears to be anomalous in the context of Bronze Age southern Italy. On the other hand, such a burial location near to a fortification wall mirrors the funerary evidence from Bronze Age hillforts (castellieri/gradine) in Istria, a region that indeed had close relationships with northern Apulia. Evidence from other European regions is also taken into account, in order to evaluate to what extent this phenomenon was a distinctive trait pointing to interaction between the south-western and north-eastern Adriatic and what their nature was. European contexts offer only generic similarities, whereas the consistency of funerary practices at settlements in the Adriaticarea, based on a close association with defensive lines, appears to be far from random.
Badlands are specific landforms characterized by intense denudation processes. Their occurrence is mainly associated with clay-like materials and semi-arid and Mediterranean climates. This study ...presents the badland inventory for the Paleogene Pazin Basin located on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. A total of 5,381 badland polygons, with a total area of 10.25 km
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, were manually outlined, based on the visual interpretation of orthophotos at a scale of 1:5,000. The badlands in Istria are represented as small and isolated landforms and are exclusively associated with flysch and flysch-like materials, which cover a significant part of the study area (46%). The analysis of badland inventory shows that badlands are spatially not equally distributed but that their abundance is increasing from NW to SE part of the analyzed area. Additionally, the results of the spatial analysis indicate the positive relationship between badland occurrence and relative relief, which is presented via the relief-badland index.
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Slučajevi bruceloze redovito se opisuju u zemljma centralne i zapadne Europe. Bruceloza svinja se po svojoj pojavnosti unatrag dva desetljeća smatra endemskom bolesti u kontinentalnom dijelu Hrvatske ...u kojoj razvijeno intenzvno i ekstenzivno svinjogojstvo. Tijekom 2018. i 2019. godine na području sjeverozapadne Istre, kao uzrok pobačaja i tijekom kontrole susjednih stada, potvrđena je bruceloza svinja prouzročena vrstom B. suis bv. 2 u dva uzgoja. Dijagnostika bolesti provedena je serološkim pretragama, brucelinizacijom, bakteriološkom i molekularnim pretragama. Prema našim saznanjima, ovo je prvi opisani slučaj bruceloze domaćih svinja na području jedne hrvatske županije i dokaz da se kontrola ove bolesti mora provoditi osobito u slučajevima pobačaja. S obzirom da ne postoje službeni statusi stada slobodnih od bruceloze svinja u R. Hrvatskoj, sa stanovišta sigurnosti, uzgajivači bi pri uvođenju novih rasplodnih svinja u uzgoj obvezno trebali provoditi prethodnu kontrolu životinje i uzgoja iz kojeg dolazi te tražiti garancije na ovu bolest. S obzirom na sve veću popularnost ekstenzivnog načina uzgoja svinja, monitoringom bolesti u divljih životinja utvrdili bi se u pojedinim hrvatskim regijama i rizici i značenje prijenosa na domaće svinje.
Swine brucellosis has been considered an endemic disease in Croatia for two decades, especially in continental areas characterized by pig production, both intensive and extensive. Furthermore, cases of the disease are regularly reported throughout Central and Western Europe. During 2018 and 2019, swine brucellosis caused by the species B. suis bv. 2 was confirmed on two pig farms located in northwestern Istria, as the cause of pig abortion and during controls of neighbouring herds. Diagnosis of the disease was performed by serological tests, Brucella skin intradermal test, bacteriological and molecular tests. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of brucellosis in domestic pigs in a coastal Croatian county and proof of the need for mandatory control of this disease in cases of abortion. Since no herds carry the official status of being free of swine brucellosis in the Republic of Croatia, from the safety perspective, breeders should introduce prior control of the animal and its breeding origin, and seek guarantees for this disease. Furthermore, considering the growing popularity of extensive methods of pig breeding, disease monitoring in wild animals would determine the risks and importance of transmission to domestic pigs in certain Croatian regions.
The paper's subject is fifteen copper alloy lamps of various types and sizes from the Roman Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Istria, mostly collected in the first half of the 20th century ...in Istria and on the island of Cres. The lamps were classified according to shape into six basic types and compared with other finds to gain insight into the chronological framework, workshop centers, and distribution routes. Figural depictions on lamps have been interpreted as mythological and cult significance. The available data on the circumstances of the findings were analyzed and compared with the other data, from which assumptions were made about the possible time and causes of the storage of copper alloy lamps in hoards. The possible value of the copper alloy lamps is estimated according to their weight.
The remains of the sewn boat known as Poreč 1, dating to the beginning of the 1st century BC, which was discovered, documented in situ and recovered in 2020, and then re-examined in 2021 prior to ...conservation treatment, adds new information to the already rich archaeological corpus of sewn boats from the northern Adriatic, providing valuable new data for defining local shipbuilding traditions. This article presents the results of the recent archaeological research, interdisciplinary study and preliminary reconstruction.
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This article examines the interplay between cultural identity, objects and memory in the Istrian exile community in Trieste, Italy. The close of the second World War and the transfer of Istria from ...Italy to the newly established socialist state of Yugoslavia saw the migration of the majority of Italians to Trieste and abroad. This article focuses on the objects held in Magazzino 18, a warehouse at the old port of Trieste, which were left unclaimed after the Istrian exodus of 1943–56. It analyses 1) how the exile community relies on the tools of Holocaust memorialisation to carve out its own narrative through objects, 2) how the imposition of the Holocaust model undermines intercultural understanding by insisting on a frame of competition and singularity, and 3) how that process ultimately obscures the role and responsibility of Italian fascism in the borderland.
Place names (toponyms) are reflections of landscape appearance, economy, historical development and social relations. They speak of stratification of settlements of a certain territory. During the ...Bronze and Iron Ages in Istria, hill forts were ‒ in addition to caves ‒ the main settlement type. Up to now, 450 hill forts are identified on the map, and 85 of these (i.e., 19%) are named after saints. On the basis of field research and data from both historical and contemporary topographic maps, a detailed topographical layout of toponyms and an analysis of their distribution have been made in relation to two main physical features, sea and land, and two linguistic areas, Croatian and Italian. Small churches, or their remains, or just the toponyms with names of saints, show the continuity of life in a particular site, as well as the security that was guaranteed within its walls. The most frequent hagiotoponym is St Mary with all of its variants (Sv. Marina St Marina).
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