A bit late, dragon.
It fits, Triglav is closely connected to the south, without ''southerner'' Mihajlo Pupin, Triglav would have gone to Italy in 1919, as well as most of the Upper Sava Valley.
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''The esteemed scientist was appointed honorary consul of Serbia in the USA in 1912, a duty he performed until 1920. During that time he did a lot to establish interstate and other contacts between Serbia and later Yugoslavia and America. His greatest contribution was in creating Yugoslavia as a common state of South Slavs and determining its borders, some of which still apply in its current successors. After the end of WWI, in 1919 during peace negotiations, at the invitation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes which was only a few months old, he spent two months in Paris, where at a key moment he used his personal acquaintance with the then 28th US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a university classmate. When it came to the borders of the young state, Pupin gathered data on historical and ethnic characteristics of border areas of Dalmatia, Istria, Slovenia, Banat, Međimurje and Prekmurje, Baranja and Macedonia and sent a personal memorandum to the US president on April 19, 1919. Just three days after receiving this letter, Wilson stated that the USA do not recognize the London Pact, with which the Allies promised Italy in 1915 that after the war it gets Trentino, South Tyrol to Brenner, Gorizia, Gradisca, Trieste, Val Canale, southwest Carniola, Istria, Cres, Lošinj and many other islands up to Mljet.
The Allies of course considered the opinion of the big brother across the Atlantic and drew the Italian-Yugoslav border so that Bohinj, Bled, a large part of the Julian Alps with Triglav and the Triglav Lakes Valley and Upper Sava Valley remained, also Kranjska Gora, Dovje, Gorje and Ribno as well as Bohinjska Srednja vas and Bohinjska Bistrica in Slovenia. When Dr. Dušan Ribarž, member of the SHS delegation, learned of this decision, he reportedly cried with joy. To repay the patriot Pupin at least a little, two years later he proposed him for honorary citizen of Bled. In the minutes of the 10th municipal meeting on September 20, 1921 in Bled it is written that they appointed university professor M. I. Pupin as honorary citizen of the Bled municipality, »who has the greatest merits that Bled and Bohinj remained in their state«.
Honorary citizen
For years, the only material memory of Pupin in Bled was the so-called Pupin House in Zaka, built by a Croatian couple, and instead of the owners' names on the wooden plaque at the entrance it said Pupin House. Time has destroyed it, in its place a Viennese couple built a brick house without Pupin's name.
In the Bled Collection for the 1000th anniversary of Bled in 2004, Božo Benedik listed Dr. Mihajlo Pupin among the honorary citizens of the place, »who due to merits for Bled and the Jesenice triangle in negotiations on the peace treaty between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes they planned to erect a memorial plaque in Zaka, but the initiative died. Only the Pupin hut in Mala Zaka remained.«
In 2008, then president of the Alpine Association of Slovenia Franc Ekar wanted to revive the memory of the patriot after decades. He sent a letter to the then presidents of the Slovenian state and government with a proposal to erect a memorial somewhere in Gorenjska, perhaps in Bled, for this Serbian-American scientist and Bled honorary citizen. »At the end of this year's celebrations of the 230th anniversary of the first ascent to Triglav, we mountaineers have often thought in which country the peak of this mountain would be now, if the world citizen Mihajlo Pupin had not advocated with the US president for the already almost determined state border between Italy and Yugoslavia after WWI,« wrote Ekar. »Besides Jakob Aljaž, Pupin is most deserving that Triglav remained Slovenian.« He received no response to this letter.
Perhaps we Slovenes will remember by the end of next year on the 160th anniversary of Pupin's birth with a monument the man to whom thanks go for a large part of the Julian Alps and valleys below them being Slovenian.
When they draw the new border in the coming days, Slovenes would certainly need a new – Pupin too.
Who was Pupin?
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (born October 4, 1854 in Idvor in Serbian Banat, died March 12, 1935 in New York) at age 15 left high school in Pančevo, where Slovenian professor Kos inspired him for natural sciences. From Prague he went to America, where during studies he survived by working on farms and in factories, in New York Slovenian greengrocer Lukanič financially helped him, which Pupin never forgot. The talented student was sent by Columbia University in New York to study physics in Cambridge and Berlin, where he earned his PhD in 1891. Upon return to Columbia he was promoted to Doctor of Science in 1904 and taught electromechanics there until retirement in 1930. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Serbian Royal Academy, president of the New York Academy of Sciences and honorary doctor of 18 universities. In the USA, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and France he received a series of high awards ...'' and so on.