Implications of the Balkan Wars for the Yugoslav Idea among Slovenians in Trieste

The article analyses the Yugoslav idea among Slovenian liberals from Trieste in the period before the First World War. Initially, they favoured the idea of a third politico-administrative unit that would incorporate Trieste within the Habsburg Monarchy. In this setting, they built a partnership with the Croatian political representatives. The first round of the Balkan wars caused euphoria among Slovenian liberals in Trieste and stimulated the development of a new political framework—namely, the federalization of the Habsburg Monarchy, and its integration with the Union of Balkan Slavs. However, the second round of the Balkan wars imposed a reduction of the Slovenian liberals’ initial plan; they excluded the Bulgarians from the Southern Slav political framework, thereby accepting the Serbian vision of the state

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