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Kršan in an engraving from 1679. The castle is first mentioned in 1274 as Castrum Carsach, in a peace agreement between Aquileia patriarch Raimondo della Torre, and Count Albert I of Gorizia who in the conflict that started in 1268 during patriarch Gregorio di Montelongo conquered and destroyed the fortified settlement.
Istria County (/ ˈ ɪ s t r i ə /; Croatian: Istarska županija; Italian: Regione istriana, lit. "Istrian Region") is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the majority of the Istrian peninsula.
Map of Istria and Dalmatia with the ancient domains of the Republic of Venice (indicated in fuchsia, the territories that belonged occasionally are dashed diagonally.). In the 14th century, epidemics such as the Black Death decimated in those years the Istrian population, which was still mostly of Romance ethnicity.