We learn of the Bosut River through the lens of Marin Knezović’s section on history, Darko Mihelj’s look at the endemic flora, Nika Jakab’s section featuring the fauna characteristic of the Bosut-Spačva basin, and some of the points of interest presented by the head of the HMI Vukovar branch office Silvio Jergović.
Our April issue focuses on the Bosut River in Croatia’s northeastern Slavonia region, with its lush river vegetation featured in the cover photography by Darko Mihelj. Both in its appearance and its heritage the Bosut stands in remarkable contrast to the two rivers featured to date in this series: the mythic Kupa and the picturesque Krka Rivers. We learn of the Bosut River through the lens of Marin Knezović’s section on history, Darko Mihelj’s look at the endemic flora, Nika Jakab’s section featuring the fauna characteristic of the Bosut-Spačva basin, and some of the points of interest presented by the head of the HMI Vukovar branch office Silvio Jergović. In his section on Croatian musicians Davor Schopf looks at the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vinkovci native Josip Runjanin, an officer serving with the army of the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy and the author of the melody for the Croatian national anthem. Schopf also writes of Nenad Lhotke and Fran Jelinčić, two ballet dancers that developed successful careers abroad, in Canada and the United States of America respectively.
In our continuing look at Croatian language lectors abroad we look at the experience of Vladan Čutura in Željezno (Eisenstadt) a town in Austria’s Gradišće (Burgenland) region also known as the final resting place of Stipan Konzul Istranin. Luka Ilić looks at the life of this Buzet native and theologian on his five hundredth anniversary. We also present a reprint from an article in the Vijenac culture magazine on an exhibition that looks at Croatians that changed the world.
This issue also reports on the sixtieth anniversary of the Music Biennale Zagreb, an event that brings a world of music to our capital, the latest books by Ljerka Toth Naumova, Daniel Načinović and translator B. B. Bagola, the collaboration of a secondary school in the coastal town of Pula with ethnic Croatian schools in Budapest and Pécs, and the lives of the late M. Župan and I. Vrkljan.
By: Ljerka Galic