Századok – 2018

2018 / 2. szám - FIUMÉTÓL KONSTANTINÁPOLYIG - Ordasi Ágnes: Bombamerényletek a fiumei kormányzóság ellen (1913–1914)

ORDASI ÁGNES

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A magyar hivatalnokokra vetülő gyanú azonban nem elégséges a kérdés eldöntéséhez, mivel Késmárky hivatalos jelentésében határozottan azt állította, hogy a határrendőrséget a robbantások kapcsán megtévesztették. Arra azonban már ő sem adott minden kétséget kizáró választ, hogy ki, vagy kik álltak a második robbantás mögött.

BOMB ATTACKS AGAINST THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE AT FIUME ( 1913–1914)

by Ágnes Ordasi

SUMMARY

According to the terms of the provisory act ratified on 28 July 1870, the governor of Fiume headed the government administration of the city of Fiume and the maritime parts of Hungary-Croatia, and thus his person represented Hungarian state authority there. As all his activities were regarded as authorised by the central government, every atrocity directed against either his person or his office qualified as a seditious act. The present paper explores the causes and effects of the most extreme of such atrocities: the bomb attacks of 1913 and 1914. Rather than focus on the culprits themselves, it draws attention to the several-decades-long conflict that set the governorship and the local political elite against each other, the latter jealously guarding their city’s political autonomy against the centralising policies of the government.