Labin and eastern Istria
Labin, Barban, Skitača, Sv. Lucija. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1208–1420 | Patriarchate of Aquileia, with a period under the dukes of Pazin | no registers survive Before registers. |
| 1420–1797 | Republic of Venice: Labin | Archivio di Stato di Venezia · Državni arhiv u Pazinu · IstriaNet · FamilySearch Labin was Venetian from 1420 to 1797. Coastal towns of Istria had been falling to Venice since 1267 while inland districts stayed under Aquileia and then the Habsburgs (the Pazin area from the 14th century), so a parish near Pazin can be Habsburg in the same years. |
| 1797–1805 | Austria, after the Treaty of Campo Formio | Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) · Državni arhiv u Pazinu The Venetian parts of Istria passed to the Habsburg monarchy in 1797. |
| 1805–1814 | Illyrian Provinces | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · FamilySearch Istria was combined with neighbouring lands in the Illyrian Provinces after 1809. |
| 1814–1918 | Austria-Hungary: Austrian Littoral | Archivinformationssystem (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) · Državni arhiv u Pazinu · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online · IstriaNet · FamilySearch Istria was part of the Kingdom of Illyria from 1816 to 1849 and of the Austrian Littoral afterwards. |
| 1918–1947 | Kingdom of Italy | Archivio di Stato di Trieste · Državni arhiv u Pazinu · IstriaNet · FamilySearch Labin was annexed to Italy in 1918. A miners' strike in March and April 1921 grew into an anti-fascist rebellion, the short-lived Labin Republic. The town passed to Yugoslavia after the 1947 peace treaty. |
| 1947–1991 | Yugoslavia, SR Croatia | Državni arhiv u Pazinu · ARHiNET — Croatian State Archives The coal mine in the centre of Labin closed in 1989. |
| 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, 1208–2026, 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.
2 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