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The boundaries of the eight original Dalmatian city-states were defined by the so-called Dalmatian Pale, the boundary of Roman local laws. [citation needed]Historian Johannes Lucius included Flumen (now Rijeka) and Sebenico (now Šibenik) after the year 1000, when Venice started to take control of the region, in the Dalmatian Pale.
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.
This is an incomplete list of states that have existed on the present-day territory of Georgia since ancient times. It includes de facto independent entities like the major medieval Duchies ( saeristavo ).
Dalmatia never attained a political or racial unity and never formed as a nation, but it achieved a remarkable development of art, science and literature. Politically, the neolatin Dalmatian city-states were often isolated and compelled to either fall back on the Venetian Republic for support, or tried to make it on their own. [6]
Central Dalmatia and the city of Split were assigned to the United States. Southern Dalmatia, between Dubrovnik and Kotor, and the coast of Montenegro became the French zone of occupation. The British were assigned to the Kvarner Gulf in the northern Adriatic, centred on the city of Rijeka. Italy claimed the city on the basis of the Treaty of ...
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 ...
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.
The Provveditore generale (Governor-general) was the official name of Venetian state officials supervising Dalmatia. [39] The Governors of Dalmatia were based in Zadar, while they were under direct supervision of the Provveditore Generale da Mar, who was based in Corfu and was directly controlled by the Signoria of Venice.