Kastav, Opatija and the Liburnian coast
Opatija, Lovran, Kastav, Klana, Gradin. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1400–1466 | Lords of Walsee at Kastav; estates of the Patriarchs of Aquileia on the coast | no registers survive Before registers. Kastav passed from the counts of Duino to the Walsee family around 1400; the Kastav Statute is dated 1400 or 1490 depending on the source. |
| 1466–1805 | Habsburg lordship of Kastav; Habsburg Istria | Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) · Državni arhiv u Rijeci · Državni arhiv u Pazinu · IstriaNet · FamilySearch Kastav and its district came into Habsburg possession in 1465 or 1466 depending on the source. In the Istrian peninsula the Pazin (Mitterburg) area had been Habsburg since the 14th century. |
| 1805–1814 | Illyrian Provinces | Državni arhiv u Rijeci · FamilySearch Istria and neighbouring lands were combined in the Illyrian Provinces after 1809. |
| 1814–1918 | Austria-Hungary: Austrian Littoral | Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) · Državni arhiv u Rijeci · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online · IstriaNet · FamilySearch After a railway branch to Rijeka opened in 1873, Opatija (Abbazia) grew as a resort and was declared the first climatic seaside resort on the Austrian Riviera in 1889. Istria formed the Austrian Littoral after 1849. |
| 1918–1947 | Kingdom of Italy | Archivio di Stato di Trieste · Državni arhiv u Rijeci · IstriaNet · FamilySearch The Treaty of Rapallo (12 November 1920) gave Italy Istria and the lands north of it, and Opatija was assigned to Italy in 1920. Fiume stayed a separate free state until Italy annexed it in 1924. |
| 1947–1991 | Yugoslavia | Državni arhiv u Rijeci · Državni arhiv u Pazinu · Arhiv Republike Slovenije · ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives Most of Istria went to Yugoslavia under the peace treaty of 10 February 1947; Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste was under Yugoslav administration until 1954 and the 1975 Treaty of Osimo formalised the division. Most of Opatija's Italian-speaking population emigrated. |
| 1991–2026 | Croatia (Opatija, Kastav) and Slovenia (Gradin) | Državni arhiv u Rijeci · Arhiv Republike Slovenije · IstriaNet The Croatia-Slovenia line is an international boundary across former Istria, and some border points remain disputed. Opatija stands on the Istrian peninsula but is not in Istria County. |
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, 1400–2026, 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.
12 places on this ground
4 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
- Slovenia, Ljubljana, Funeral Accounts, 1937-1970 ↗ 1937–1970 44,813 records
- Slovenia, Prekmurje and Međimurje, Civil Registers, 1895-1918 ↗ 1895–1918 0 records