What is Istrian–Dalmatian exodus?
'''Istrian-Dalmatian exodus''' was the [[diaspora]] or [[forced migration]] of ethnic [[Italy|Italians]] from [[Istria]], [[Rijeka|Fiume]], and [[Dalmatia]], after [[World War II]]. Those territories had been [[Ethnic group|ethnicall]]<nowiki/>y mixed since the [[Middle Ages]]. Most people were Italians, but there were also [[Slovenian]], [[Croatia|Croatian]], [[Serbia|Serbian]] and other communities.<ref>{{cite book| last = Petacco| first = Arrigo| title = A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of the Italian Population of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943-1956| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hhD0R8DBr_UC| year = 2005| publisher = University of Toronto Press| isbn = 978-0-8020-3921-7 }}</ref> [[National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe]] is Italian celebration in memory of all exiles and victims in the [[massacres of Foibe]]. ==Characteristics== [[Istria]] including [[Rijeka|Fiume]] (Rijeka) and parts of [[Dalmatia]] including [[Zadar|Zara]] (zadar), had been annexed to [[Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)|Italy]] after [[World War I]]. At the end of [[World War II]] the former Italian territories in Istria and Dalmatia became part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] by the [[Treaty of peace with Italy (1947)|Paris Peace Treaty]] (1947), with the only exception being the [[Comune|commune]]s of [[Muggia]] and [[San Dorligo della Valle]]. Italian sources claim that about 350,000 ethnic Italians had to leave the areas after the conflict.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adesonline.com/recensionelibroermannomattioli.htm|title=adesonline.com|website=www.adesonline.com}}</ref> Official data shows that between 1948 and 1961 (the ''exodus'' started in 1943 in Dalmatia and in 1945 in the rest of the territory) the numbers of ethnic Italians living in [[Socialist Republic of Slovenia|Slovenia]] - almost exclusively in Slovenian Istria and along the Italian border - decreased by nearly 87% (from 25,451 to 3,072). The data for the Former Yugoslavia shows a decrease in the same years from 113,