In 1406 Medulin asked the Venetian Senate to help them to build the walls around Medulin to protect it in the case of the involvements in a war but this request was refused because Venice believed that they were not able to defend the village.

In 1446 Medulin asked Venice to became independent from Pula and also this request was denied. At the time the Noble family Gionatasi from Pula had important feudal rights in Medulin and their management of the properties contributed to a certain prosperity of the area.

Before 1564 Medulin suffered both plague and malaria, and only few inhabitants remained in the village. Venice forced the Slavs immigration at the time and in 1620 Ivan Radosevic brought several families in Medulin. In 1631, plague killed again the majority of the population and in 1649 Ivan Radosevic brought another 60 families.

The same Ivan Radosevic is also mentioned in 1658 as the leader who organized robbery attacks on Bale. In 1671 some families from Boka Kotorska arrived in Medulin but few years later they decided to return to their homes.

In the 18th century Medulin started to exploit “saldame” that was used in the glass manufacturing for the famous Murano art works.

After the fall of Venice in 1797, Medulin was part of the Austrian Empire and for a short period of time was under Napoleon domination. After the First World War and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Medulin, was part of Italy. After the Second World War became part of Yugoslavia (Croatia).

During the Italian Fascist period in Istria many Istrian families suffered from the regime or had to leave Istria. Fascism in Istria applied various repressive measures mostly towards Slav populations and this created the Antifascist Movement. The Second World War was a very painful experience for the Istrian population and many innocent Istrians, both Slav and Latin, died during that war.

After the second World War Medulin became part of Yugoslavia (Croatia). There were three agreements between Yugoslavia and Italy which established that Istria would become a part of Yugoslavia: Paris Agreement of 1947, London Memorandum of 1954 and the Osimo Agreement reached in 1975. In the first decade after the Second World War many Istrians, especially those living in towns and villages that for centuries were part of the Venice Republic, decided to leave Istria.

In 1991 with the fall of Yugoslavia and the founding of the Republic of Croatia, the internal republic boundaries were recognised as the state boundaries and Medulin is today part of Croatia.

In 2013 Medulin became part of the European Union. You can not change the past but you can try to learn from it. The main aim of the European Union founders was to build a system that could avoid future wars and future refugees in Europe as I explain in COSMOPOLITE.

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