History
Video: South Tyrol’s Autonomy from an Armenian-Azerbaijani perspective
In 2008, an international film crew from Armenia and Azerbaijan took a closer look at South Tyrol’s autonomy and at the history of the South Tyrolean minority in northern Italy. The four-strong film crew visited a number of conflict areas around the world for their various joint projects. In the Sou...
- Date | 17.02.09
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Video: Minority Anthems – A Music Archive in Vienna
A unique collection of minority anthems can be found at the University of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna, at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethno-Musicology. minet has traced some of the minority anthems in their collection. minet broadcast: 28.05.2009 Also featured in this programm...
- Date | 28.05.08
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Video: Zahre – A German Language Enclave in the Carnic Alps
Sauris/Zahre effectively consists of two villages: Sauris di Sotto/Unterzahre and Sauris di Sopra/Oberzahre. These two villages form the German language enclave in north eastern Italy. It is not entirely clear when the German speakers began to settle in Zahre. The reason for this is that a fire, tw...
- Date | 30.04.08
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Video: Amikejo – An Esperanto State in the Heart of Europe
Amikejo used to be a place of friendship, and in many ways it still is. Today it is known as Kelmis. It lies in the heart of Europe and, at the beginning of the 20th century, was set to become an independent new state amidst Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The artificial language Esperanto was...
- Date | 26.03.08
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Video: Friulian in Friuli – A Language with Hip-Hop Accents
Friulian is spoken by about half a million people in the Friuli, and it is recognised as an official language for the regional authorities and in schools. The language is mainly spoken in the provinces of Pordenone, Udine and in the Carnic Alps.In the 13th century it was sometimes used even as ...
- Date | 26.03.08
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Video: Dalmatia and Istria in Bolzano – Bolzano’s Minority Mayors
Bolzano’s 2005 mayoral election: Giovanni Salghetti Drioli and Giovanni Benussi are going head to head in an exciting election battle. Both of them have their origins in what is now Croatia, and both of them belong to the Italian minority in Dalmatia and Istria. They maintain their culture of origin...
- Date | 07.12.07
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Video: The Sorbs – A Slavic People in Germany
The West Slavic Sorbs are recognised as a national minority in Germany. It is estimated that today there are about 20 000 – 30 000 active Sorbian language speakers. In recent years, the Sorbian people have staged a number of protests, including one in 2001 against the closure of the Sorbian language...
- Date | 05.10.07
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Video: Russians in Estonia – The Story of a Moving War Memorial
In 1947, the Soviet authorities put up a monument in the shape of a bronze soldier. Many Estonians see this statue as a symbol of their country’s occupation by the Soviet Union in the period of 1940/41 and 1944-1991. When the tension increased in September 2006, the police put barricades around the ...
- Date | 08.06.07
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Video: The Gypsy Princess Luminita Mihai Cioaba – Roma Life in Romania
The Roma writer Luminita Mihai Cioaba was born in 1957 and has lived in Sibiu, in Romania, since 1963. It was then her father, Ion Cioaba, who was Bulibassa and later became the first Roma king, moved to Sibiu in order to settle down. minet took a look at some traditional Roma villages and encounter...
- Date | 04.05.07
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