The Czechoslovak-Italian Dissention in the Adriatic Problem as Interpreted in the Italian Diplomatic Correspondence Cover Image

Československo-taliansky rozpor v jadranskej otázke pohľadom talianskej diplomatickej korešpondencie
The Czechoslovak-Italian Dissention in the Adriatic Problem as Interpreted in the Italian Diplomatic Correspondence

Author(s): Natália Rusnáková
Subject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Politics and law, History and theory of political science, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: Legions; Adriatic Question; Italian Military Mission to Slovakia; Diplomatic Correspondence;

Summary/Abstract: The very basis of the relationships between Italy and the newborn Czechoslovak state was constituted by military and diplomatic activities, leading to formation of military corps as the first manifestation of the state not having yet denomination nor its own geographical frontiers. The article proposes to show how the attitude of Italy towards constitution of the independent Czechoslovakia was strictly conditioned by seeing the new state as an ally in the Adriatic problem and by its support of Italyʼs territorial demands on the Dalmatia and Istria coast. We try to point out, relaying on the information and contents of the Italian diplomatic correspondence, how such a support was abandoned as a consequence of Czechoslovak foreign politics choices made in the immediate after-first world war period. In this way, we were able to reconstruct in a more detailed way a chapter of the Italian-Czechoslovak relations not fully examined in the contemporary period.

  • Issue Year: 27/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 580-597
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Slovak
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