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After World War II Italy ceded all remaining Italian areas in Dalmatia to the new SFR Yugoslavia. This was followed by a further emigration, referred to as the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, of nearly all the remaining Italians in Dalmatia. Italian-language schools in Zadar were closed in 1953, due to a dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste.
Istrian Italians were more than 50% of the total population of Istria for centuries, [25] while making up about a third of the population in 1900. [26] Dalmatia, especially its maritime cities, once had a substantial local ethnic Italian population (Dalmatian Italians), making up 33% of the total population of Dalmatia in 1803, [27] [28] but this was reduced to 20% in 1816. [29]
Today, as a result of the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus (1943–1960), the majority of Istrian Italians live outside of the Istrian peninsula; however, a significant Italian minority still lives in the Croatian County of Istria (5.01%) and in Slovenian Istria (3.3%), where they are granted minority rights. According to the official Slovenian and ...
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Croatia and Italy share a large number of sister cities between themselves. [17] [18] Many of these cities have Croatian and Italian-language versions of their name due to historic cultural diffusion. The town Grožnjan in Croatia is majority Italian-speaking and is locally known as Grisignana. Molise Croats live in the Molise region of Italy.
The village of Grožnjan/Grisignana is the only municipality in Croatia with a majority Italian speaking population.. Via conquests, the Republic of Venice, from the 9th century until 1797, when it was conquered by Napoleon, extended its dominion to coastal parts of Istria and Dalmatia. [7]
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The Kingdom of Italy's 1936 census [20] indicated approximately 230,000 people who listed Italian as their language of communication in what is now the territory of Slovenia and Croatia, then part of the Italian state (ca. 194,000 in today's Croatia and ca. 36,000 in today's Slovenia).