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Trans-Border Region of Istria

Figure 5.3
The Former Grave
of Nazario Sauro

ica, France, Australia, etc.: Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1950; Tunjić, 2004;
Violante, 2009).⁷³ The border issue with Italy was resolved no earlier than
in 1954 and finally confirmed with the Treaty of Osimo in 1975, p. North-
ern Istria, South of Muggia, was officially annexed to the then Yugoslavia
(Italy and Yugoslavia: Treaty on the Delimitation of the Frontier for the
Part Not Indicated as Such in the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947 (with
Annexes, Exchanges of Letters and Final Act, 1987; Tunjić, 2004).

Istria in the Second Yugoslavia was divided between the two (socialist)
republics, Slovenia and Croatia. By the end of the war and after all related
tragic events, Istria began a new period of traumatic political, economic
and demographic changes, where, however, the consequences of w w i i
had to be overcame first. The new (totalitarian) political regime (social-

⁷³ See also Marsetič (2006a; 2006b) and Rogoznica (2005; 2011).

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