Sonderband 2. International Council on Archives. Dritte Europäische Archivkonferenz, Wien 11. bis 15. Mai 1993. Tagungsprotokolle (1996)

2. Session /Séance. Regional (trans-border) Cooperation / Coopération régionale (transfrontaliere) - Cova, Ugo: The Case of the Adriatic-Alps Zone / Le cas de la zone Alpes-Adriatique (english 145 - français 153)

2. Session/Séance: Cova, The Case of the Adriatic-Alps Zone

search, has led to the publication of catalogues of records kept at on institution and concerning the neighbouring area. Clearly, all this relects the past belonging to a single state which broke up not long ago. This is the case of Hapsburg monarchy, whose parts now cover a very large area subdivided into a number of successor states in Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Obviously, for the regions of the old empire data are collected and catalogues are drawn up mainly by the State Archives in Vienna where records are kept for the whole of the monarchy, but valuable contributions also come from Hungarian and Italian archivists (in particular from Trieste) working with their own methodologies and stmctures.

Several activities could be mentioned which result from the cooperation between archives coverning a territory which used to be unified and is now divided by state borders. This is the case of Styria - southern Styria has belonged to Slovenia since 1918, but its records are mainly kept at the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv in Graz, the capital of Austrian Styria. A bilingual directory of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv (Führer zu den Findbüchern des Steiermärkischen Landesarchivs in Graz) was edited by Gerald Gänser and Pater Klasinc in 1991, as the result of the cooperation between the archivists of the Prokrajinski arhiv Maribor and the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv. The directory identifies the records which are kept in Graz and concern Southern Styria and Carniola (which now belong to Slovenia).

In 1990 the University of Ljubljana published a large amount of records concerning schools in Slovenian Istria for the period going from 1797 to 1918, with many references to schools in the Croatian part of Istria. The publication (Arhivski viri o razvoju solstva v slovenski Istri od razpada beneske Republike da 1945 -1 del 1797-1918), made by an archivist of the Pokrajinski Arhiv Koper (Regional Archives of Koper), is the first part of a study which will cover the period up to 1945. Data were collected in Slovenian archives as well as in archives located in Croatia (Rijeka and Pazin) and Italy (State Archives of Trieste). Trieste was in fact the seat of the Austrian institutions in charge of the administration of Istrian schools from the fall of the Venetian Republic to 1918. The Trieste archivists cooperated with great enthusiasm and enabled a thorough collection of data, part of which was photocopied.

These are just two examples of an ongoing cooperation covering the aforementioned areas (and not just those areas) which stems from the friendly relations between ALPE Adria regions belonging to different states. For example, there are close contacts between Slovenian and Hungarian archives, with the exchange of records of mutual interest.

An important meeting is then held every year Pannonia with participation of several archivists. It is the Internationales Kulturhistorisches Symposion Mogersdorf (Mogersdorf international historical-cultural symposium) which is named after the Burgenland city where it was first held. The Symposium is organized every year in one of the participating regions: Carinthia, Styria and Burgenland (Austria), Vas and Zala (Hungary), Slovenia and Croatia. It is not by chance that all the participating regions are members of ALPE Adria.

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