Mirko Valentić (19 September 1932 – 18 January 2025) was a Croatian historian.

Biography

Mirko Valentić was born in Ivanjska near

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, then part of the

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(modern-day

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). In 1961, he graduated from the

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with a degree in History and received his doctorate in 1978 with the thesis ''"Hrvatsko-slavonska Vojna krajina i pitanje njezina sjedinjenja s Hrvatskom 1849-1881"'' (Croatian-Slavonian Military Border and the Question of Its Unification with Croatia 1849-1881). From 1993 onward, he worked as a professor at the

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. In 2005, Valentić became a member of the council for the preparation of

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before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. His research topics included the

Military Frontier The Military Frontier (; sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна крајина, Vojna krajina, sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна граница, Vojna granica, label=none; ; ) was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungari ...

; transport integration and Adriatic orientation of Croatia; migration and colonization processes in the 16th and 17th centuries;

Burgenland Croats Burgenland Croats (, , , ) are ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland, along with Croats in neighboring Hungary and Slovakia. Around 320,000 residents of Austria identify as of Croat heritage; 56,785 have, as sole or multiple natio ...

; and " Greater Serbian projects" of the 19th and 20th centuries. Valentić died in 2025, aged 92.

Selected works

* ''Kameni spomenici Hrvatske XIII-XIX stoljeća'', Zagreb, 1969. * ''Gradišćanski Hrvati od XVI stoljeća do danas'', Zagreb, 1970. * ''Die Burgelaendische Kroaten'', Eisenstadt: Landesmuseum Eisenstadt, 1972. * ''The Military Frontier and the Question of Its Unification with Croatia'', 1849–1881, Zagreb, 1981. * ''Vojna krajina u Hrvatskoj'', Zagreb, 1981. * ''O etničkom korijenu hrvatskih i bosanskih Srba'', Zagreb, 1992. * ''Das Eisenbahnnetz in der Militaergrenze Plaene und Verwirklichung'', Vienna, 1993. * ''Hrvatska na tajnim zemljovidima 18. i 19. st. Sv. 10: Varaždinska županija'' Zagreb, 2006 * ''Rat protiv Hrvatske - 1991. - 1995. - Velikosrpski projekti od ideje do realizacije'', Zagreb, 2010. * ''War against Croatia 1991 - 1995: Greater Serbian projects from idea to implementation'', Zagreb - Slavonski Brod, 2012.

Awards

Časni znak zemlje Gradišće (2013)

References

External links

List of scientific works for Mirko Valentić

Mirko Valentić, biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Valentic, Mirko 1932 births 2025 deaths Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina 20th-century Croatian historians Yugoslav historians 21st-century Croatian historians Scientists from Zagreb