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Accepting the Border, Choosing the Border: Štrigova and Razkrižje Microregion 1910-1953

After the fall of the old and mighty Austro-Hungary new borders were drawn. Some of them were state-borders, others were mere borders between various local and regional administrative units that became a part of the newly created, unitary Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. The border that divided regions populated mostly by Croats and mostly by Slovenes for the most part followed the previous border between the Lower Austrian provinces and the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. But in the Međimurje and Prekmurje regions, that were formerly a part of the Zala and Vas Counties, until the creation of a common South Slavic country there was no clear national and political division between Slovenians and Croats. After they were incorporated into Kingdom of Yugoslavia Slovenian and Croatian administrative centers began the bidding for this territory. Over the next few decades the north-western part of Međimurje, which was apparently not yet affected by the processes of Sloveno-Croatian national differentiation, proven itself as a particularly disputable territory. This paper will demonstrate how the residents of Štrigova and Razkrižje microregion, today divided between modern Croatia and Slovenia, accepted changes of borders and identities. We can observe that various political, regional and municipal border changes that were made in the first half of the 20 th century affected this area greatly in many different ways. The changes of the both administrative and national border lines in this microregion were frequent and the great deal of the local population often felt that most of them were imposed by the political centres that they didn’t perceive as their own. At the end we will notice how the locals defined the border and what shaped their preferences in terms on which side of the border they wanted to work, live and receive different services from.

borders; phantom borders; Štrigova; Razkrižje

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