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The chapter analyses how does the identity of Croatia’s Orthodox population appear in schoolbooks? The analysis of primary school textbooks as a reflection of state politics in the Republic of Croatia focuses on presentation of Vlachs, the first people of Eastern Orthodox faith to arrive on the territory of present-day Croatia. Analyses attempts to identify some deeper reasons for why today’s history textbooks in primary schools, as part of daily politics of the state, present the identity of Croatia’s Orthodox population as they do, showing that it is no accident that even productive critics, by default, classify the country’s entire Orthodox population as Serbs. This short reflection provides a possibility of a better understand of why Vlachs’ transgressive identity history continues to challenge such stereotypes, and may be a time bomb under the beds of Southeast Europe’s contemporary nation states.
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Arsenije III Čarnojević was the archbishop of Pec and Patriarch of Serbs from 1674 to 1691 and Metropolit of Sentandreja from 1691 until his death in 1706.
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See the chapter on Vlachs in Malcom (1996).
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As part of the Erdut Agreement between the Croatian Republic and the temporary UN administration for Eastern Slavonia, Barnja, and Western Srijem (4 August 1997), through which those three areas by the Danube were reintegrated into Croatia, the Croatian government recognized educational rights for minorities in those three areas. A subsequent declaration stipulated a five-year moratorium on studying the history of the period from 1988 to 1997 in all schools in the Danube area.
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Ognjenović, G. (2020). Phantoms of Neverland: The Tale of Three+ History Textbooks in Croatia. In: Ognjenović, G., Jozelić, J. (eds) Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38121-9_7
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