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Sites of Memory of the First World War in Dalmatia Monuments to "Fallen Warriors"

Dalmatians, like all citizens of the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy, took part in the war operations of the Monarchy on all battlefields, although they fought mostly on the Isonzo Front. The First World War shook Dalmatia, which even before the war was one of the poorest and least developed provinces of the Monarchy. After Italy's entry into the war, Dalmatia as a coastal country was a war zone from the very beginning. We still do not have exact data on the number of soldiers killed in Dalmatia during the First World War, but as soon as news of the wounded and the dead began to arrive, the families of the victims tried to preserve the memory of them in some way as most were buried outside their places of birth. Already during the war in many places in Dalmatia, memorial boats or wooden statues were put up into which visitors, family members could drive a nail that they paid for with voluntary contributions to help soldiers killed in the war and their families. In the local cemeteries, there were parts that became military cemeteries where wounded soldiers who had died in hospitals were buried or those whose families had managed to transfer the dead soldier’s body from one of the battlefields. Monuments to fallen warriors were already being erected in some Dalmatian places during the war as memorials to the victims of the First World War. War monuments were erected even after the end of the war during the Kingdom of SCS / Yugoslavia. In this presentation, the authors will present, based on the material collected so far, where all the monuments to fallen warriors were put up and in what circumstances, and whether these monuments became sites of memory of the First World War or were simply forgotten.

WWI, Sites of Memory, Dalmatia, monuments

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