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Trans-Border Region of Istria
many of them were the subject of premeditated damnatio memoriae, al-
though mostly unsuccessful.
The collapse of the Second Yugoslavia and the military conflict in the
1990, although a lot less bloody than in some other parts of the for-
mer federation, also influenced Istrian society, including ‘Istrian-style
memory’ (regional transcultural memory). War created the need for new
memorials and dark commemorative events, which joined the existing
memorial practices. Nevertheless, after all the conflicts of the 20th cen-
tury, which are the basis for numerous monuments and dark commem-
orative events, a complex retrospective and analysis of past and present
memorial practices in Istria was not observed in available references. This
also applies to dark tourism studies, which completely ignored Istria as a
post-conflict area.
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many of them were the subject of premeditated damnatio memoriae, al-
though mostly unsuccessful.
The collapse of the Second Yugoslavia and the military conflict in the
1990, although a lot less bloody than in some other parts of the for-
mer federation, also influenced Istrian society, including ‘Istrian-style
memory’ (regional transcultural memory). War created the need for new
memorials and dark commemorative events, which joined the existing
memorial practices. Nevertheless, after all the conflicts of the 20th cen-
tury, which are the basis for numerous monuments and dark commem-
orative events, a complex retrospective and analysis of past and present
memorial practices in Istria was not observed in available references. This
also applies to dark tourism studies, which completely ignored Istria as a
post-conflict area.
106
