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The article deals with the problems of indigenous national/ethnic minorities in Alps-Adriatic-Pannonian region, which came into being as result of drawing of new state frontiers after World War I and dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. Characteristically for the Alps-Adriatic-Pannonian region are ethnically mixed areas settled by indigenous minorities. Some of them have their specific minority rights guaranteed on the basis of international agreements. This article intends to prove that these minorities had to cope with similar incomprehensible problems in the states where they lived as the minorities even today have to cope with. The states very often treated minorities as a disturbing factor, which needed to be eliminated as soon as possible. To achieve this, the states on the one hand neglected economic development in the regions, which were settled by minorities; and on the other hand, they tried to assimilate the ethnic/national minorities through administrative-political reforms and by not supporting the activities of specific minority organizations. Therefore, the minority population began to emigrate from the regions of their indigenous settlement. It is interesting to note that all of the above mentioned facts are also valid for today's era of a united Europe.
Keywords: Alps-Adriatic-Pannonian region, indigenous national/ethnic minorities, ethnic conflicts, ethnicity, nationalism
Avtohtone narodne/etnicne manjsine v alpsko-jadransko-panonskem prostoru, 1921-1938
Prispevek obravnava problematiko avtohtonih narodnih/etnicnih manjsin v alpsko-jadranskopanonskem prostoru, ki so nastale kot posledica oblikovanja novih drzavnih meja po prvi svetovni vojni in razpadu Avstro-Ogrske. Za alpsko-jadransko-panonski prostor je tudi danes znacilna etnicna pomesanost, poseljenost z avtohtonimi manjsinami, vecina katerih ima specificne manjsinske pravice zagotovljene na podlagi mednarodnih pogodb. V nadaljevanju prispevka bo dokazano, da so se te manjsine spopadale s podobnimi problemi nerazumevanja njihovih potreb s strani drzav, v katerih so zivele, kot je to znacilno tudi za danasnje obdobje. Drzave so manjsine pogosto imele za motec dejavnik, ki ga je potrebno cim prej in na taksen ali drugacen nacin odpraviti. S tem ciljem so na eni strani nacrtno zapostavljale gospodarski razvoj z manjsinami poseljenih obmocij, na drugi pa so poskusale manjsine cim prej asimilirati tudi na podlagi upravno-politicnih reform in neustreznega podpiranja specificnih manjsinskih organizacij. Manjsinsko prebivalstvo se je zato zacelo v vse vecjem stevilu izseljevati z obmocij svoje avtohtone poselitve. Vse navedena dejstva veljajo tudi za danasnje obdobje zdruzene Evrope.
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