Talk:Pazin
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Was Pazin really made an administrative center of Istria County because of the development of the interior? Istria is not such a large county that it's interior couldn't be developed from, let's say, Pula, which is the city of a size and importance that dwarfs all other Istrian towns, especially Pazin. There are some insinuations that the reasons were of more political nature, Pazin being one of the rare Istrian municipalites that HDZ had won the 1991 elections in. I'm interested in opinions and perhaps some concrete information about the subject.
There were lot of political influence in Pazin to become an administrative center of Istra county after Croatia became an independent country.
Pula had been the administrative center of Istria since Roman times. Politics had a lot to do with making Pazin the new administrative center.
Pula has a population over 60000, not including the urban area, and Pazin less than 10000 with the whole urban area. I'm generally against the centralization, and had there been any realistic reason why make Pazin administrative center of the county, I would not object. But this is just disguisting, Pula has a long history of being the administrative center of Istria, and victory of political lobbying over history and tradition, and most of all common sense, is just sad.
One other thing... 139 km2???
Maybe this can help: From the end of 13th century to the beginning of the 19th century the central part of Istria was politicaly devided from the rest of Istria. Central part of Istria, or Pazin County, with Pazin as administrative center was first under Counts of Gorizia, and from 1374 under Habsburgs. Rest of Istria was at first devided between Patriarchs of Aquilea and Venice, later completely under Venice. Under Napoleon this two parts joined together after more then 500 Years. And again, the administrative center was not Pula, but Triest, from 1825 to 1865 Pazin, and from 1865 Poreč. Pula became the administrative center of whole Istria for the first time after World war I when Istria fell under Italy. I hope this was helpful
