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Doc. dr Goran Latinović

University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy

Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

YUGOSLAV-ITALIAN MARITIME RIVALRY AT THE ADRIATIC SEA 1919–1929.

Vol. XXXV, 2/2017, pp. 59–70
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2017.2.lat.59-70

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME: The Italian domination was quite evident in Yugoslav-Italian rivalry at the Adriatic Sea from 1919 to 1929. Italian merchant fleet was much more developed than Yugoslav, both by number of ships and by their tonnage, while Italian ports were better equipped than Yugoslav. The advantage of Italy was also in the fact that it owned the most important ports on eastern Adriatic coast, Trieste and Rijeka/Fiume (since 1924), and that both were very well connected by railroads to Central Europe. The possibility of transport of people and goods by sea had exceptional influence on Yugoslav-Italian economic relations in that period, with Italian maritime companies holding the primacy in the trade exchange between the two countries. Over 70% of all Yugoslav export by sea from 1925 to 1927 was in the hands of Italian merchant fleet, which also covered significant percentage of all Yugoslav imports. The rivalry between the two countries continued after 1929, and it was also characterized by the Italian domination.

 

KEYWORDS: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Italy, rivalry, the Adriatic sea, the trade exchange, merchant marine, sea and port traffic

 

SOURCES:

  • Arhiv Jugoslavije (AJ), fond 65, Ministarstvo trgovine i industrije Kraljevine Jugoslavije; zbirka 81, Dobrivoje Stošović; fond 148, Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kraljevine Jugoslavije; fond 373, Poslanstvo Kraljevine Jugoslavije u Italiji.
  • Archivio centrale dello Stato (ACS), Ministero della marina mercantile – Direzione generale del personale e affari generali; Ministero del tesoro – Direzione generale tesoro, Ufficio di verifica e compensazione e trattati di pace.
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