The Illyrian Movement And The Construction Of T... -

: The movement's most enduring legacy was the adoption of the Štokavian dialect as the literary standard for Croats, which also brought them linguistically closer to Serbs and Bosnians.

The Illyrian movement (1835–1848) was a Romantic nationalist campaign led by Croatian intellectuals that sought to construct a unified South Slavic national identity—initially termed "Illyrian"—to resist Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman cultural pressures. While its ultimate goal of a broad South Slavic state failed, it succeeded in consolidating the modern . Core Themes in Identity Construction The Illyrian movement and the construction of t...

The Illyrian Movement and the Construction of National Territory : The movement's most enduring legacy was the