Library
This is a list of media information with a focus on Konavle. Please send us your suggestions and ideas on what to add here. Contact us at this email address.
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Can't find a Croatian book? This book seller in Zagreb is very good at finding hard-to-find books from anywhere in the world.
Dominović Book Seller Phone: +385 1 615 03 15; cell: +385 98 244 871
Email: knijzara@dominovic.hr Web: www.knjizara-dominovic.hr​
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[book]
Blossoms into Gold by Donna Mekis and Kathryn Miller, 309 pages (2009). ISBN: 978-0-932319-12-8. A book about the Croatian emigrants to the Pajaro Valley of California.
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[separate page on this website]
The Summary of Stanovništvo Konavala, by Niko Kapetanić and Nenad Vekarić (1999), on pages 385-391 of Vol. 2. This summary is in English but both books are in Croatian. This is a “must read” for anyone even vaguely interested in the history of Konavle. Seven pages — short and succinct.
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[photo collection - PDF]
Photos taken in 1908 in Konavle, Austria (today in Croatia). Negatives of these photos were found by John Scurich in the office of his farm in Watsonville, California, in 2010. These are some of the earliest candid (non-professional) photos of Konavle known to exist. More details in the link.
• https://archive.org/details/konavle-1908-scurich-photos/
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[book - PDF]
The Slav Community of Watsonville, California (1881-1920). A collection of all newspaper articles that mention the surnames or businesses of Slav immigrants, as found in the newspapers of Watsonville, California, published between 1881 and 1920. Includes lists of villages of origin, maps, and short biographies of early Slav immigrants. ISBN 978-0-9610470-4-7 (2014); 835 pages. Not available in print. Download free from the link page.
• https://archive.org/details/watsonville-slav-book-1881-1920
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[treatise - PDF]
A short treatise (18 pages) on the Skurić / Scurich family of Čilipi, Croatia, that immigrated to Watsonville, California, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
• https://archive.org/details/scurich-family-history ​
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[excerpt - PDF]
Sixty-six fruit and vegetable labels of Croatian businessmen and Croatian businesses of Watsonville, CA, from the 1920s and 1930s. These are 7 pages of The Slav Community of Watsonville, California (1920-1929), Vol. 2. ISBN 978-0-9610470-8-5 (2017).
• https://archive.org/details/apple-labels-from-Watsonville-Slav-book ​
These fruit labels are also available in poster form here:
• https://archive.org/details/labels-poster ​
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[referral]
For those of you who live in Konavle or are visiting Konavle, the Cavtat library has many books on Konavle genealogy and history. Most are in the Croatian language but some have English summaries in the back, and some are in both languages. The library is in the same area as the bus stop in Cavtat. You can find when they are open on their Facebook page.
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