!!!Dalmatien

Dalmatia, region on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula with 
small off-shore islands, area 11,770 km%%sup 2/% (2,100 km%%sup 2/% of 
which are islands); at the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy 
predominantly Croat (1910 96.6 %) and Italian (2.6 %) 
population (altogether 646,062). From the 10%%sup th/%  century D. was 
largely conquered by the Croats, from the 11%%sup th/%  century Venice 
occupied the towns Split/Spalato, Zadar/Zara, Dubrovnik/Ragusa, in the 
15%%sup th/%  century the Ottomans conquered parts of Dalmatia. The 
portion to be held by Venice was determined only in the peace treaties 
of Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci) 1699 and Passarowitz (Pozarevac) 1718. 
In the peace of Campoformido 1797 D. was assigned to the Austrian 
monarchy; 1805-1810 it formed part of the Italian kingdom, 1810-1814 
part of France; from 1815 again under Austrian rule and in 1816 was 
made a kingdom. In the revolution 1848/49 Dalmatia supported the 
Vienna government against the Hungarians. In 1867 became part of the 
western half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1869/70 and 1881 the 
application of Austrian military laws triggered off riots. After World 
War I Dalmatia´s status was unclear; ceded to Yugoslavia in the 
treaty of Rapallo 1920, whilst Zadar, Rijeka and a number of islands 
were transferred to Italy.

!Literature
E. Bauer, Drei Loewenkoepfe, Oesterreich in Dalmatien, 
1973.


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