After the first attemps (in 1040) the Slovene political movement in the framework of the administrative unit »the Austrian Coastland« (it comprised the region Gorizia-Burgenland, the independent town Trieste and Istria) revived after 1061 — in the time of restoration of the parlamentarism in the Halsburg Monarchy. The Slovene movement actually began with the activity in the field of culture (establishment of the so called reading clubs). Soon it found echo by the Italians, who along with the Slav majority in the Austrian Coastland represented quite a proportion of the population in that administrative unit. The Italian political movement had of course different origin and roots. Some groups within the movement saw solution of their problems in the annexation of the Austrian Coastland to Italy, and others still within Austria, which should of course guarantee more political and national rights for the Italians. The Slovene political movement in the Austrian Coastland developed in the frames of the central Slovene politics, though right the local national relations giving it its characteristic. At the end of the period the author describes the relations between the Italian and the Slovene political movement, which got sharper features just because of the principles of the Slovene national programme (the so called United Slovenia). The tension in the contacts appearing at that time is characteristical for all the time untili the collapse of the Austro-Hungary. The sixties, however, certainly indicated the development of the later events, as well as the aims and means of the state government which wanted to gain as much profit as possible from the national conflicts.