The Dispute over Fiume after WW1

I bet they were Fiuming 😤 🇮🇹

I am absolutely loving Fiume's head Italian ethnonationalist being a guy with a Croatian name. You see this all the time in places like this, like Belgium, and it will never not be awesome.

Itally invading a city to force them to stop claiming to be Itallian is kind of like the Social Wars of ancient Rome.

As if this story wasn't crazy enough, among the volunteers who followed d'Annunzio there was also a Japanese warrior poet, Harukichi Shimoi, who got the nickname "the Samurai of Fiume" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harukichi_Shimoi

To be clear D’Annunzio is still study in Italian literature classes today, he is a big deal still

I like that they had a Department of No Fucking Ugly Buildings

I really appreciate your channel for covering more niche and unknown history like this.

I’m italian and i just want to thank you for giving an unbiased perspective on the topic. One tidbit i’d like to add is that after invading Yugoslavia during WWII Italy annexed Fiume and parts of Dalmatia.

The story ending is somewhat lacking. At the end of ww2 partisans liberate Fiume, and some italian residents fail to read the room, more than four years of genocides, terrible crimes etc., and decide it is the right moment to ask about another referendum. They end up summarily executed on the spot by the yugoslavian partisans. Then the ethnic cleansing of german and italian minirities ensues, since they are both blamed for the ww2 and collaboration with the occupying forces. This is perhaps the biggest blemish on the partisan movement during and after the war. I dont know specifics about italians from Fiume/Rijeka but i believe most germans were deported to germany after the ww2, even if they lived in yugoslavia for generations.

The Aedile thing sounds like it was just a "well the Romans had Aediles, so we should too" kind of thing.

Amazing how hypocritical the allies were.

A visitor came to my house this afternoon and we briefly talked about Fiume when talking, what a wonderful coincidence.

pointing out "plesbescite" as requested 😁

Living in Rijeka is a completely different experience than living anywhere else in Croatia. Nationalist sentiment is very low, most people consider themselves Croats but there are a lot of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from Bosnia and Albania as long as there still being a somewhat noticeable Italian minority. As a matter of fact the Rijeka radio station "HRT Rijeka" still do news coverage in Croatian AND Italian. It is still a hub for leftist ideas, being the only city in Croatia to hold parades for the Day of the Fight against Fascism, the large center-left party of Croatia has been ruling over Rijeka since Croatia gaining its independence after the Yugoslav wars, there being a lot of flyers plastered around the city, organizations promoting anti-capitalist sentiment and being the only city in Croatia to have a homeless shelter. It is also one of the few cities that has high approval ratings of the old socialist government. To reiterate, a lot of people will still specify their ethnicity, but most don't Identify with it. Rijeka is just too different from the Croatian country side and the other port towns around Croatia. I and most people I know would sooner relate to being a Resident of Rijeka than being a certain nationality. Its multicultural nature IS the culture of Rijeka. I am glad someone decided to make this video and I am always glad to learn more about my cities history 😁.

The clarification of Gabriele D'Annunzio role at that time by Sir Manatee is clarified. Visiting Rijeka and Trieste and only being told about the post WW2 Chaos in Trieste makes sense about the area. Absolutely fantastic broadcast as usual. I hope there is a Broadcast about Emperor Maximilian and the KüK Kriegsmarine in the future. More interesting aspects of that area

As someone who's been here almost every year due to my mother being born in Fiume/Rijeka who's parents were Italian and Croat this was a very personal part of history. Thank you! My great grand mother still had her Italian irridentist tendencies, whilst my grandparents became socialist to offset the horrors of war.

Watching the video rn, but I just wanted to say that your pronunciation of Italian names is excellent

Oh I was just thinking about the Fiume crisis and hoping one of my favorite history Youtubers would do something on it! (Well I guess this will do instead. Haha just playing! Thank you for this fun video.)

As a croatian I love that you are covering this, cause I honestly have no clue about history of Rijeka cause it's just so complicated. We always mention it as "ah yeah and then "X" tried to steal/managed to steal rijeka from us" and we are left not knowing what exactly happened.

Every time I’m convinced there’s no way you could possibly produce another amazing video analysing undervalued old-world or Belle Epoque phenomena you prove me wrong yet again HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS