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The Brioni Archipelago: Spatial Identity in the Adriatic Context

Brioni attract tourists for their "splenid isolation". This tourist motto holds true for the serene beauty of the national park, but it ignores archaeological and historic evidence of "contested lanscape" and changing identity to the Adriatic region, both in seascape and lanscape. The islands belong geologically and geographically to the Istrian peninsula, where they belonged even culturally in the pre- Roman times. Histrian hill- forts on Brioni were an extension of the peninsular socio- political lanscape. The Roman expansion in the Adriatic altered the navigational routes and Brioni became a Roman naval base in the changed seascape. Romanization of the coastal plains of Istria, including Brioni, brought historical changes in the rural and urban settlement patterns and in economy. Brioni remained a senatorial estate until the late antiquity, when Byzantine rule and general militarization of the Adriatic seascape changed the spatial identity once again. The course of Europen history kept shaping Brioni s "identity of owning and belonging" until the present day.

Brioni Islands; Adriatic seascape; cultural landscape

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