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Updated: May 18, 2025
Vodnik, the Slovene poet, sang of Illyria and her creator, but it was the meteoric Croat, Ljudevit Gaj, in the thirties, who so eloquently idealized it as he poured heated rhetoric into the camp of the Magyars, who after the Diet of 1825 began their unfortunate policy of Magyarization.
As practised in Slavonia, the custom of the need-fire used to present some interesting features, which are best described in the words of an eyewitness: "In the year 1833 I came for the first time as a young merchant to Slavonia; it was to Gaj that I went, in the Pozega district.
It was Gaj who reformed Croatian orthography on the basis of the Serbian. Bleiweis and Vraz endeavored to do the same in Slovene. The revolution of 1848 demonstrated still further the friendly relations of these potential rivals as national unifiers.
The time was autumn, and it chanced that a cattle-plague was raging in the neighbourhood, which inflicted much loss on the people. I had then occasion to observe the proceedings in the villages of Gaj, Kukunjevac, Brezina, and Brekinjska. Towards evening the whole population of the village was busy laying a ring of brushwood round the boundaries of the village.
On the other hand, the annexation of the same province in 1908 had just the opposite effect, for from that time the ultimate ideal was no longer Greater Croatia or Greater Serbia in any selfish sense, but Jugo-slavia, because, to use a platitude, Bosnia had scrambled the eggs. Evidence of the fairly amicable relations between Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs at the time of Gaj is not lacking.
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