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  2. Dalmatia - Wikipedia

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    Dalmatia (/ d æ l ˈ m eɪ ʃ ə,-t i ə /; Croatian: Dalmacija [dǎlmatsija]; Italian: Dalmazia [dalˈmattsja]; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, [1] [4] alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

  3. History of Dalmatia - Wikipedia

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    Dalmatia was ravaged by barbaric tribes in the beginning of the 4th century. Slavs started settling in the area in the 6th and 7th century, including Croats. These Slavic arrivals created the Kingdom of Croatia and other Slavic principalities. Byzantium, Hungary, Venice and the Ottoman Empire all fought for control of Dalmatia.

  4. Dalmatia (theme) - Wikipedia

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    Dalmatia first came under Byzantine control in the 530s, when the generals of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) seized it from the Ostrogoths in the Gothic War.The invasions of the Avars and Slavs in the 7th century destroyed the main cities and overran much of the hinterland, with Byzantine control limited to the islands and certain new coastal cities -with local autonomy and called ...

  5. Dalmatia (Roman province) - Wikipedia

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    Dalmatia was a Roman province. Its name is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae , which lived in the central area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea . It encompassed the northern part of present-day Albania , much of Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , and Serbia , thus covering an area significantly ...

  6. Kingdom of Dalmatia - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Dalmatia (Croatian: Kraljevina Dalmacija; Italian: Regno di Dalmazia; German: Königreich Dalmatien) was a crown land of the Austrian Empire (1815–1867) and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). It encompassed the entirety of the region of Dalmatia, with its capital at Zadar.

  7. Regions of Croatia - Wikipedia

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    Konavle forms a small subregion of Dalmatia in the very south of Croatia and stretches from the town of Cavtat up to the Prevlaka peninsula near Montenegro border. Kordun is a region in central Croatia, situated between Lika and Banovina. Lika lies at the cross-roads between continental and coastal Croatia. Apart from those that go through ...

  8. Governorate of Dalmatia - Wikipedia

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    In Dalmatia there was a constant decline of the Italian population, in a context of repression that also took on violent connotations. [15] During this period, Austrians carried out an aggressive anti-Italian policy through a forced Slavization of the region. [16] The Italian population in Dalmatia was concentrated in the major coastal cities.

  9. Šibenik - Wikipedia

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    The city, like the rest of Dalmatia, initially resisted the Venetian Republic, but it was taken over after a three-year war in 1412. [10] Under Venetian rule, Šibenik became in 1412 the seat of the main customs office and the seat of the salt consumers office with a monopoly on the salt trade in Chioggia and on the whole Adriatic Sea .