Research Article

Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)

Number: 6 June 30, 2021
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Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)

Abstract

The article investigates the history of the small province of Kastoria, Western Macedonia, during the Italian occupation between 1941 and 1943. The province of Kastoria was inhabited by an ethnically mixed population comprising Greeks, Vlachs and Slavophones. During the occupation the Italian authorities promoted the formation of militias of Slavophones to help quell the resistance. In order to explain the formation of these collaborationist units, the articles first explores the history of the region in the 1920ies and 1930ies. Then it focuses on the occupation years until the Slavophone militias were formed in 1943. It concludes that interethnic violence was neither the necessary outcome of preceding etnic cleavages, nor the result of the Italian policy of divide et impera. Interethnic strifes derived rather from socio-economic dynamics that led to the reemergence of preexisting patters of ethnicization of conflis over ressources.

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English

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Publication Date

June 30, 2021

Submission Date

January 15, 2021

Acceptance Date

May 2, 2021

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Year 2021 Number: 6

APA
Fonzi, P. (2021). Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943). Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, 6, 75-99. https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL
AMA
1.Fonzi P. Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943). BALKAR. 2021;(6):75-99. https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL
Chicago
Fonzi, Paolo. 2021. “Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)”. Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, nos. 6: 75-99. https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL.
EndNote
Fonzi P (June 1, 2021) Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943). Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies 6 75–99.
IEEE
[1]P. Fonzi, “Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)”, BALKAR, no. 6, pp. 75–99, June 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL
ISNAD
Fonzi, Paolo. “Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)”. Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies. 6 (June 1, 2021): 75-99. https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL.
JAMA
1.Fonzi P. Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943). BALKAR. 2021;:75–99.
MLA
Fonzi, Paolo. “Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943)”. Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, no. 6, June 2021, pp. 75-99, https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL.
Vancouver
1.Paolo Fonzi. Political Violence in a Borderland. The Region of Kastoria under Italian Occupation (1941-1943). BALKAR [Internet]. 2021 Jun. 1;(6):75-99. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA84KZ76AL