Mountain U？ka in the first hundred volumes of the Croatian Mountaineer

Sa？etak Croatian Mountaineer, journal and official gazette of the Croatian Mountaineering Association, began publishing on June 1, 1898, making it one of the world’s longest-running magazines. During the long period of its publication, a large amount, variety and quality of content has been presented, therefore it can be used as a unique source in various disciplines and sciences. Starting from the richness of contents gathered in this journal, the aim of this paper is to investigate the presence, presentation and perception of mountain U？ka in the first hundred volumes of the Croatian Mountaineer, thus covering the period from 1898 to 1998. The example of this mountain shows perfectly how major socio-political changes (especially wars) not only affected the dynamics of the journal’s publication itself but also its content. Namely, U？ka is a mountain ？near the border”, so it is not and cannot be understood solely as an ？ordinary” mountaineering goal, but its status is often influenced by many other factors that are not necessarily mountaineering, but enter the area of the construction of national, regional, homeland and political identity