Southern Istria
Pula, Vodnjan, Rovinj, Svetvinčenat, Ližnjan. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.
Whose archive this ground was
| Years | Who held it | Whose archive that means |
|---|---|---|
| 1200–1331 | Patriarchate of Aquileia · the communes | no registers survive Before registers. |
| 1331–1797 | Republic of Venice — Istria da Mar | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch Venetian Istria, diocese of Pola. The registers are in Italian and Latin and the hands are Venetian. |
| 1797–1805 | Austria — first occupation | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch |
| 1805–1813 | Napoleonic — Illyrian Provinces | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch |
| 1813–1918 | Austria — Küstenland, diocese of Pola | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online Pula becomes the imperial navy's main port, and the population triples. Naval and garrison records are Viennese, not local. |
| 1918–1943 | Italy — Provincia di Pola | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch Filed under Italy. FamilySearch collection 2152685 covers Buje, Novigrad, Oprtalj, Brtonigla and Materada among others. |
| 1943–1945 | Adriatisches Küstenland | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · Arolsen Archives |
| 1945–1991 | Yugoslavia — SR Croatia | Državni arhiv u Pazinu The esodo: most of the Italian-speaking population leaves between 1945 and 1956. People vanish from these registers without dying. |
| 1991–2026 | Croatia — Istria County | Državni arhiv u Pazinu |
The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.
See the whole span, 1200–2026, on the map →
The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.
15 places on this ground
2 FamilySearch collections reach this ground
Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.
- Croatia, Church Books, 1516-1994 ↗ 1515–1994 7,007,772 records
- Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1571-1926 ↗ 1570–1926 233,088 records