期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：1992
卷号：1
期号：1 (1)
页码：13-24
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：If we distinguish between regionally and centrally governed or organized countries in Europe, the middle Europe (in a ve/}' broad sense) will prove to be traditionally a largely regionalized area. This pattern applies fully to Croatia, where there were always several cultural and economic centres of importance in Dalmatia, Slavonia and elsewhere. The traditional pattern of government through a king or a vice-roy, ban, and through regional administrators, župans, equally fits into the picture. The cultural history, the Mediterranean renaissanee in badly dismembered Croatian lands and the 19th centu/}' continental cultural revival in a Croatia on the way towards the future unification correspond with the European, especially the middle European pattern. The oomplementery character of the two revivals and the continuity between them has given the intellectual milieu of Zagreb since the continental revival the necessary preconditions to represent appropriately the whole of Croatia and of its heritage. Thus we have in Croatia a great variety among regions, which should be further cultivated, on one hand, and a centre, Zagreb, where people of all regions are well represented, and wherefrom the regions may be properly coordinated. While Croatia was dismembered, Croatian poets, intellectuals and political leaders never gave up their aspirations at a unified Croatia, and kept building up a complex cultural pattern to include all regional and even intercultural distinctions of their cultural environment. Now, when Croatia is being born, we must not betray this harmonious structure neither by neglecting regional particularities, nor by disturbing the final liberation and unification of the counuy. The position of regions in Croatia as well as in Europe may be advocated by the principle of subsidiarity, which should enable all natural communities, like family, region, national group, country and continent or cultural sphere, to organize their system of interrelations from the bottom to the top, provided that broader common interests are not violated and that appropriate higher levels of taking decisions are introduced always when (and only when) it is necessary.
