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Kapusi Krisztián: Mediterrán ősz. Miskolci delegáció Fiumében (1869 szeptember)

Sziklay János é. n. Fiume lakossága. In: Fiume és a magyar-horvát tengerpart. 22-26. Szerk. Sziklay János-Borovszky Samu. Budapest LEVÉLTÁRI FORRÁSOK B.-A.-Z. M. Lt. IV. 1601/a. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Megyei Levéltár, Miskolc város levéltára, Miskolc Város Képviselő Közgyűlésének iratai. Közgyűlési jegyzökönyvek B.-A.-Z. M. Lt. IV. 1601/b. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Megyei Levéltár, Miskolc város levéltára, Miskolc Város Képviselő Közgyűlésének iratai. Közgyűlési iratok MEDITERRANEAN AUTUMN - A DELEGATION FROM MISKOLC IN FIUME (SEPTEMBER, 1869) One consequence of the defeat of the 1848 Revolution was that the Corpus Separatum (Fiume, today Rijeka in Croatia), part of the lands of the Holy Crown, came under the administration of Croatia-Slavonia between 1848 and 1868. During the negotiations preceding the Compromise, the most heated debates between the Hungárián and Croatian delegations concerned the possession of the port in Quarnero Bay. An agreement, the so-called Fiume Provisorium, was finally reached after many years of negotiations, which declared that Fiume County and the Buccari District would be part of Croatia, while the city of Fiume and its port would come under Hungárián authority. The city's Italian population, as well as countless Hungárián official and civilian organisations seized every opportunity to demonstrate their common front. Thus, the organisation of the XlVth Meeting of Hungárián Physicians and Scientists in Fiume in September, 1869, had a political significance in addition to the meeting's scientific agenda. Owing to the political background of the event, not only physicians and scholars of the natural sciences, but alsó patriots from many Hungárián towns and cities travelled to Fiume to participate. Delegations from Miskolc and other towns in County Borsod too undertook the joumey. The Italian population was harassed and the use of its mother tongue was restricted during the Croatian era, explaining the preference for a Hungárián government. There was an overall atmosphere of enthusiasm, although party politics led to a few nasty episodes: adherents of the government party, which strove to reach a peaceful agreement with the Croatians, and the political camp of the opposition, which wanted to resolve the port's administration with a onesided political decision, förmed factions among the visitors from Hungary and the locals. Owing to the increasing tension in this respect, about one-half of the participants departed well before the end of the meeting. The experiences of the participants from Miskolc and their joumey through Vienna, Trieste, Venice and Verona were published in a series of articles in a local weekly; other sources include various official documents and reports in the national press. Krisztián Kapusi 303