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Istrian Memories in the Dark Tourism Context: The Quantitative Analysis
Figure 9.5
History-Centric Dark
Commemorative Events
in Istria (Google, n.d.; see
Figure 9.6 for legend)
reconstruct its course – it is marked as an event in Pula, which was one
of their target destinations. Another important finding is the difference
between the two historical sites and regional centres – Koper in Slove-
nia and Pula in Croatia. The occurrence of dark commemorative events
related to the conflicts of the 20th century in Pula is much higher and
more varied than in Koper. One dark commemorative event took place
at sea, between the Brijuni Islands and Rovinj, because it is connected
with the sinking of the Baron Gautsch civil steamboat in 1914. Eight lo-
cations with 16 different dark commemorative events related to the con-
flict in the 1990s reflect a relatively peaceful situation in the wake of the
collapse of the Second Yugoslavia in Istria. ‘Other’ events represent ex-
amples of dark commemorative events which are not directly linked to
wwi, fascism, wwii, the socialist revolution and the exodus, and the in-
dependence war in the 1990s in Istria, e.g. other events commemorating
the victims of the socialist totalitarian regime, or those in memory of the
Italian patriots and the victims of Srebrenica.
Table 9.4, as a kind of summary or synthesis of Figure 9.6, shows that
w w i i-related dark commemorative events mainly occurred in villages
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Figure 9.5
History-Centric Dark
Commemorative Events
in Istria (Google, n.d.; see
Figure 9.6 for legend)
reconstruct its course – it is marked as an event in Pula, which was one
of their target destinations. Another important finding is the difference
between the two historical sites and regional centres – Koper in Slove-
nia and Pula in Croatia. The occurrence of dark commemorative events
related to the conflicts of the 20th century in Pula is much higher and
more varied than in Koper. One dark commemorative event took place
at sea, between the Brijuni Islands and Rovinj, because it is connected
with the sinking of the Baron Gautsch civil steamboat in 1914. Eight lo-
cations with 16 different dark commemorative events related to the con-
flict in the 1990s reflect a relatively peaceful situation in the wake of the
collapse of the Second Yugoslavia in Istria. ‘Other’ events represent ex-
amples of dark commemorative events which are not directly linked to
wwi, fascism, wwii, the socialist revolution and the exodus, and the in-
dependence war in the 1990s in Istria, e.g. other events commemorating
the victims of the socialist totalitarian regime, or those in memory of the
Italian patriots and the victims of Srebrenica.
Table 9.4, as a kind of summary or synthesis of Figure 9.6, shows that
w w i i-related dark commemorative events mainly occurred in villages
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