Štivor

Unconfirmed sources suggest that the news of what happened to those hapless people reached the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph II, who - moved by compassion - offered to settle them in the newly acquired province of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Since present-day Trentino was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, families from the Sugana Valley and from the villages of Primiero, Aldeno e Cimone were entitled to colonize land in Bosnia.

(Some have argued that they were not properly informed about the deal by Yugoslav authorities, who were not anxious to acknowledge the presence of a large Italian community in the area, which was considered to be entirely Slav.)

After the end of World War II farming remained the predominant economic activity in the area; in the mid-1960s the country's economy prospered considerably, and many inhabitants of Stivor moved to the Yugoslav industrial cities while others migrated abroad (most of them to Australia).

They speak their original Trentino dialect, while the Italian language is taught at the local school, with a program supported by the Trentini nel Mondo Association.