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标题：Confines and Boundaries: Marks of Frontiers and Borders in Istria from the Middle Ages to the Present Period
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作者：Bertoša, Slaven ; Bradara, Tatjana ; Kuzmanović, Nenad 等
期刊名称：Histria archaeologica
印刷版ISSN：0350-6320
出版年度：2010
卷号：40
期号：40
页码：115-146
出版社：Arheološki muzej Istre
摘要：This work brings the basic data about a project planned by the Archaeological Museum of Istria at Pula, which regards boundary lines on the Istrian Peninsula in the course of past centuries. Through field work and based on the still existent border marks we shall endeavor to reconstruct the exact course of the state frontier line between Venetian and Austrian possessions, individual communes, and territories of special importance to the state, as were forests. We plan to end the project with a publication of a detailed catalogue enriched with numerous photographs, as well as precise general information regarding border marks (locality, dimensions, state of preservation, etc.). A whole series of historians and explorers were busy studying border marks from Istria, amongst them: Danilo Klen, Vjekoslav Bratulić, Miroslav Bertoša, Anton Meden, Marino Budicin, Christian Gallo and Slaven Bertoša. So-called differences, i.e. not yet divided plots of land that became contentious points and sources of conflict, proved to be of momentous importance for questions regarding borders: for example, Dober Dol, Mune, Šumber, Semić, Grimalda, Zamask, Kašćerga, Muntrilj and Sv. Lovreč. The conflicts on these territories did not cease until the downfall of the Venetian Republic, which can be clearly seen on the basis of numerous reports compiled by diverse Venetian priors in Istria. The final goal of this project is, primarily, to save from oblivion and to facilitate the preservation from devastation of those stone border marks that were to date completely forgotten and neglected, and remained thus unknown and insufficiently studied. Our wish is to document every available and preserved border mark. Unfortunately, some were ruined by weathering factors, but the majority was ruined during road building and earth-moving activities in conjunction with the amelioration of the Mirna River course, and as a result of other earth works on fields and in forests, or as a consequence of urbanization. Nowadays many of them are found built into diverse structures, serving as thresholds and door-posts, we find them on façades, and they also serve as benches in front of houses and on the streets.
关键词：Istria; the Modern Age (16th - 19th century); frontiers; contentious points; stone boundaries