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Jerko Machiedo
Jerko Machiedo (24 November 1877 – 10 February 1962) was a Croatian and politician and physician. Biography Early life and family Machiedo studied medicine at the University of Graz. He earned his doctoral degree there in 1901. Following military service in Zadar and further training at a clinic in Graz, Machiedo was first employed as the substitute town physician in Ston in early 1902. Later that year, he was hired as the municipal physician in his hometown of Hvar. Machiedo retained that position until 1909. In 1907, he was elected the deputy president of the Chamber of Physicians of Dalmatia. He married Tereza Pinkava and they had sons Dušan and Dimitrije, and daughter Milica. Dimitrije's son became a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2014. Career until World War I In 1908, Machiedo was elected a representative in the Diet of Dalmatia on the ticket of the (a party created through merger of the People's Party and the . In 1910, he was appointed the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hvar (town)
Hvar (Chakavian: ''For'', ) is a town and port on the Hvar, island of the same name, part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The municipality has a population of 4,251 (2011) while the town itself is inhabited by 3,771 people, making it the largest settlement on the island of Hvar. It is situated on a bay in the south coast of the island, opposite from the other nearby towns of Stari Grad, Croatia, Stari Grad and Jelsa, Croatia, Jelsa. The town of Hvar has a long and distinguished history as center for trade and culture in the Adriatic. A commune, part of the Venetian Empire during the 13th to 18th centuries, it was an important naval base with a strong fortress above, encircling the town walls and protecting the port. Cultural life thrived as prosperity grew, and Hvar is the site of one of the oldest surviving theatres in Europe, opened in 1612. The seven-hundred-year-old walls still survive, as do many of the noble houses and public buildings from the 15th – 17th centuries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were Assassination, assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formally Bosnian Crisis, annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Princip was part of a group of six Bosnian assassins together with Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Vaso Čubrilović, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Cvjetko Popović and Trifko Grabež coordinated by Danilo Ilić; all but one were Bosnian Serbs and members of a student revolutionary group that later became known as Young Bosnia. The political objective of the assassination was to free Bosnia and Herzegovina of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of The Eastern Adriatic
The occupation of the eastern Adriatic by the Allies of World War I was a military mission that followed the First World War and lasted from November 1918 to September 1921. Naval assets and troops of the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Italy, France, and the United States were deployed to parts of the territory of former Austria-Hungary, especially the region of Dalmatia, the city of Rijeka, and coastal areas of the Kingdom of Montenegro. The occupation was intended to resolve the disposal of assets of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the settlement of Italian territorial claims on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Those claims, largely corresponding to the award made under the Treaty of London (1915), Treaty of London used to entice Italy to enter the war on the side of the Allies, conflicted with the territorial claims of the nascent Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia) and its predecessor states, as well as the principle of self-determination ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allies Of World War I
The Allies or the Entente (, ) was an international military coalition of countries led by the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan against the Central Powers of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major European powers were divided between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was made up of the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. The Triple Alliance was originally composed of Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy, but Italy remained neutral in 1914. As the war progressed, each coalition added new members. Japan joined the Entente in 1914 and, despite proclaiming its neutrality at the beginning of the war, Italy also joined the Entente in 1915. The term "Allies" became more widely used than "Entente", although the United Kingdom, Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uroš Desnica (politician)
Uroš Desnica (28 August 1874 – 1 July 1941) was a Croatian Serb and Yugoslavian politician and lawyer. Biography Desnica graduated law from the University of Vienna and practied law in Zadar until 1918. Desnica was a member of the Serb People's Party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia (then a part of Austria-Hungary). In 1905, he took part in the process of adoption of the — the decision of the Croatian Serb politicians in Dalmatia to endorse the . The latter was a political agreement between a number of Croatian and Croatian Serb political parties on an alliance which led to founding of the Croat-Serb Coalition. In the final days of the World War I, in the process of dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the National Council appointed Desnica a deputy member of the three-member provincial government of the former Austro-Hungarian crown land of Dalmatia. The government consisted of Ivo Krstelj, Josip Smodlaka, and Vjekoslav Škarica, while Desnica, Prvislav Grisogono, and Jerko Mach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prvislav Grisogono
Prvislav Grisogono (31 March 1879 – 7 December 1969) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian lawyer and politician. Biography Early years Grisogono studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctoral degree in law from the University of Graz. During his university education, Grisogono started to support the political opposition to the rule of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. After completion of the law school, Grisogono worked as a trainee lawyer in Split and then opened law firms in Imotski and then in Sinj. In this period, Grisogono co-founded ''Sloboda'' (lit. ''Freedom''), and contributed to ''Savremenik'' (lit. ''Contemporary'') and ''Novi list'' newspapers. He also established a connection with the Young Bosnia organisation. Upon outbreak of World War I, authorities in Austria-Hungary interned Grisogono together with his brother Ivo, and writers Ante Tresić Pavičić and Niko Bartulović in Maribor and then in Zadar until his release in 1917. Government minister Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Smodlaka
Josip Smodlaka (; 9 November 1869 – 31 May 1956) was an Austrian, Yugoslav and Croatian politician who served two brief terms as Mayor of Split. Following the end of World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs appointed Smodlaka a member of the three-member provincial government of the former Austro-Hungarian crown land of Dalmatia, along with Ivo Krstelj and Vjekoslav Škarica (with deputies Prvislav Grisogono, Uroš Desnica, and Jerko Machiedo). The provincial government administered the region in the run-up to the arrival of Allies of World War I The Allies or the Entente (, ) was an international military coalition of countries led by the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan against the Central Powers ... and their occupation of the eastern Adriatic in 1918. References Mayors of Split, Croatia 1869 births 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Škarica
Vjekoslav Škarica (24 December 1863 – 13 January 1945) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician and lawyer. He specialised in the maritime law. Following the end of World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs appointed Škarica a member of the three-member provincial government of the former Austro-Hungarian crown land of Dalmatia, along with Ivo Krstelj and Josip Smodlaka (with deputies Prvislav Grisogono, Uroš Desnica, and Jerko Machiedo). The provincial government administered the region in the run-up to the arrival of Allies of World War I and their occupation of the eastern Adriatic in 1918. In 1919, Škarica drew up, on his own initiative a proposal for the Maritime Act of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Krstelj
Ivo Krstelj, also Ivan Krstelj (6 November 1867 – 22 December 1949) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician and lawyer. Biography Krstelj graduated law and obtained doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in 1894. Subsequently, Krstelj pursued the career of an attorney in Zadar and Šibenik. He was a member of the Party of Rights and its Zadar regional committee secretary since 1897. Krstelj left the party, together with Mate Drinković, in protest against its proposed merger with the People's Party (Dalmatia), People's Party in 1905. He became the municipal mayor in Šibenik in 1906–1913. In 1910 and 1911, Krstelj was elected to the leadership of the Party of Rights in Dalmatia and to the leadership of the unified Party of Rights (in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Croatia-Slavonia and Dalmatia respectively. In 1913, he left the Party of Rights again as he deemed the approach applied by the Party of Right to solution of the Croatian question wrong. Krstelj and Drinkovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Slovenes, Croats And Serbs
The National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs () claimed to represent South Slavs living in Austria-Hungary and, after its dissolution, in the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. The council's membership was largely drawn from various representative bodies operating in the Habsburg crown lands inhabited by South Slavs. The founding of the National Council in Zagreb on 8 October 1918 fulfilled the Zagreb Resolution to concentrate South Slavic political forces, adopted earlier that year on the initiative of the Yugoslav Club. The council elected Anton Korošec as the president and Svetozar Pribićević and Ante Pavelić as vice-presidents. On 19 October 1918, the National Council declared itself the supreme body of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. This position was upheld by the Croatian Sabor meeting on 29 October to sever ties between Croatia-Slavonia, Dalmatia and the city of Rijeka on one hand and the Kingdom of Hungary and Austria-Hungary o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of Austria-Hungary
The dissolution of Austria-Hungary was a major political event that occurred as a result of the growth of internal social contradictions and the separation of different parts of Austria-Hungary. The more immediate reasons for the collapse of the state were World War I, the worsening food crisis since late 1917, general starvation in Cisleithania during the winter of 1917–1918, the demands of Austria-Hungary's military alliance with the German Empire and its ''de facto'' subservience to the German High Command, and its conclusion of the Bread Peace of 9 February 1918 with Ukraine, resulting in uncontrollable civil unrest and nationalist secessionism. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had additionally been weakened over time by a widening gap between Hungarian and Austrian interests. Furthermore, a history of chronic overcommitment rooted in the 1815 Congress of Vienna in which Metternich pledged Austria to fulfill a role that necessitated unwavering Austrian strength and resulted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
