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The Dalmatian Hinterland (Croatian: Dalmatinska zagora, Italian: La Morlacca or Zagora dalmata) is the southern inland hinterland in the historical Croatian region of Dalmatia. The name zagora means 'beyond (the) hills', which is a reference to the fact that it is the part of Dalmatia that is not coastal and the existence of the concordant ...
The Dalmatian Hinterland ranges in width from fifty kilometres in the north, to just a few kilometres in the south; it is mostly covered by the rugged Dinaric Alps. Seventy-nine islands (and about 500 islets) run parallel to the coast, the largest (in Dalmatia) being Brač, Pag, and Hvar.
In the period between the start of the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) and the end of Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–40), the Ottoman Empire made significant advances in the Dalmatian hinterland - it did not occupy the Venetian cities, but it took the Croatian possessions between Skradin and Obrovac (forming Croatian vilayet and then ...
The border between the Dalmatian hinterland and the Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina greatly fluctuated until the Morean War, when the Venetian capture of Knin and Sinj set much of the borderline at its current position. [31] This period was abruptly interrupted with the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797.
Nijemo kolo (pronounced [nijêːmo kôlo]) is a silent dance originating from the Dalmatian hinterland in southern Croatia. In 2011 it was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. [1]
Historical regions of Dalmatian Hinterland Karst terrain of Kninska Krajina. Kninska Krajina (Serbian Cyrillic: Книнска Крајина) is a geographical and historical region in Dalmatian Hinterland in Croatia, centered around the town of Knin.
The center of the Dalmatian Government (Italian: La Proveditura Generale), led by the General Dandolo, was in Zadar. Italian become the official language. Dalmatian interests were advocated (only formally) by the so-called Dalmatian minister without portfolio who worked at the then central government of the Kingdom of Italy in Milan. Ivan ...
In 1941, with the creation of the Governorate of Dalmatia, its provincial territory was broken up, reaching an area of 3,719 km 2 (1,436 sq mi) [2] and a population of 211,900 inhabitants [25] distributed across 20 municipalities, which included the municipality of Zadar and its enlarged hinterland, plus Šibenik and the Dalmatian islands in ...