Kingdom of Dalmatia

Infobox Former Country
native_name = Kraljevina Dalmacija
conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Dalmatia
common_name = Dalmatia
status = Vassal
empire = Austria
status_text = Crownland of the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary
continent = Europe
region = Balkans
country = Croatia
era =
event_start = Congress of Vienna
year_start = 1815
date_start = June 22
event_end = Joined the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
year_end = 1918
date_end = October 29
p1 = Illyrian Provinces
flag_p1 = Flag of France.svg
s1 = State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
flag_s1 = State shs.svg
s2 = Kingdom of Italy

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image_map_caption = Dalmatia in red
common_languages = Croatian, Italian
government_type = Monarchy
capital = Zadar
religion =
currency =
stat_year1 = 1910
stat_pop1 = 645666
stat_area1 = 12831The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division (kingdom) of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.

History

The Kingdom of Dalmatia was formed from territories that the Habsburg Monarchy conquered from the French Empire in 1815. It remained a separate administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918 when most of its territory (excluding Zadar and Lastovo) became part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia).

Demographics

The 1880 Austrian census recorded following ethnic groups in the Kingdom:
* 371,565 Croats
* 78,714 Serbs
* 27,305 Italians

The major cities are (1900)

* Zara Zadar the capital, with 32,506 inhabitants
* Spalato Split (27,198)
* Sebenico Šibenik (24,751)
* Ragusa Dubrovnik (13,174)

Religion

The Roman Catholic archbishop had his seat in Zara, while the diocese of Cattaro, diocese of Lesina, diocese of Ragusa, diocese of Sebenico and diocese of Spalato were bishoprics. At the head of the Orthodox community stood the bishop of Zara.

The use of Slavonic liturgies written in the Glagolitic alphabet, a very ancient privilege of the Roman Catholics in Dalmatia and Croatia, caused much controversy during the first years of the 10th century. There was considerable danger that the Latin liturgies would be altogether superseded by the Glagolitic, especially among the northern islands and in rural communes, where the Slavonic element is all-powerful. In 1904 the Vatican forbade the use of Glagolitic at the festival of SS. Cyril and Methodius, as likely to impair the unity of Catholicism. A few years previously the Slavonic archbishop Rajcevic of Zara, in discussing the "Glagolitic controversy," had denounced the movement as "an innovation introduced by Panslavism to make it easy for the Catholic clergy, after any great revolution in the Balkan States, to break with Latin Rome."

ee also

*Dalmatia
*History of Croatia
*History of Dalmatia

External links

* [http://www.terra.es/personal7/jqvaraderey/185915BK.gifMap]