Hrvatini (; ) is a
village
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in southwestern
Slovenia
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in the
City Municipality of Koper
The Urban Municipality of Koper (; , ) is one of twelve urban municipalities of Slovenia. It is located at the coastline of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Slovenia and was established in 1994. The seat of the municipality is the town of Koper. ...
.
Name
Hrvatini was mentioned in historical sources as ''Cruatine'' in 1763–87. The name is a plural form of what was originally a nickname and has now become a surname, borrowed from old Croatian ''Hrvatin'' 'Croat'. For similar names, compare ''
Hrovača'' and ''
Hrobači'' (a hamlet of
Dobravlje). The name originally referred to medieval Croatian resettlement from the south connected with
Ottoman occupation of the central
Balkans
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.
History
For centuries Hrvatini belonged to the municipality of
Muggia
Muggia (; ; ) is an Italian (municipality) in the Province of Trieste, regional decentralization entity of Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. It has 12,703 inhabitants.
Lying on the eastern flank of th ...
(now in
Italy
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). After the dissolution of the
Free Territory of Trieste
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in 1954, it was annexed to the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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. Since then, it has been gravitating towards Koper. During Slovenia's
war of independence
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in 1991, a maritime landing near Hrvatini by special forces of the
Yugoslav Army was repulsed by Slovenian troops.
Slovene,
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
, and
Croatian are traditionally spoken in the village. There is complete Slovene-Italian official
bilingualism
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.
References
External links
Hrvatini on Geopedia
{{Koper
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Koper