Launching and Impact of the First National Revival Editions – Calendar Istran and Newspaper Na？a sloga – in the Province of Istria and on the Kvarner Bay Islands

Sa？etak In the early second half of the 19th century, the province of Istria and the islands in the Kvarner Bay experienced the Croatian National Revival, a movement that had previously started in Civil Croatia. In addition to the opening of reading rooms, the key role in these events played also the launching of editions in the Croatian language, thanks to which the national ideas reached not only the Croatian population of the mentioned Istrian and Kvarner Bay region, but also the local Slovene population, which shared the same fate with Croats there as opposed to Italian population, leading though considerably smaller in number. These editions were the calendar Istran, almanac issued for the years 1869 and 1870, and the newspaper edition Na？a sloga, published in the period 1870–1915. The paper further indicates to the activity of Franjo Ravnik and Matko Laginja – two prominent personalities, who had, apart from bishop Juraj Dobrila, played crucial roles in connection with the publication of these editions