| Kingdom of Dalmatia Kraljevina Dalmacija Königreich Dalmatien Regno di Dalmazia |
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| Kronland of the Austrian Empire | |||||
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| Dalmatia in red | |||||
| Capital | Zadar | ||||
| Language(s) | Croatian, Serbian, Italian | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||
| Legislature | Dalmatian Parliament | ||||
| History | |||||
| - Congress of Vienna | June 22, 1815 | ||||
| - Joined the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs | October 29, 1918 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - 1910 | 12,831 km2 (4,954 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 1910 est. | 645,666 | ||||
| Density | 50.3 /km2 (130.3 /sq mi) | ||||
| Currency | Croatian Kruna | ||||
The Kingdom of Dalmatia (Croatian: Kraljevina Dalmacija, German: Königreich Dalmatien; Italian: Regno di Dalmazia) was an administrative division (kingdom) of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. It's capital was Zadar.
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The Kingdom of Dalmatia was formed from territories of the Illyrian Provinces that the Habsburg Monarchy conquered from the French Empire in 1815. It remained a separate administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918 when its territory - except Zadar, its territory and the island of Lastovo, annexed to Italy - became part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia). As a result of the Vidovdan Constitution (in 1921), the majority of the Kingdom was divided into the Split Oblast and Dubrovnik Oblast, with the Bay of Kotor being administratively split to the largely Montenegrin Zeta Oblast.
The 1880 Austrian census recorded following ethnic groups in the Kingdom:
The 1900 Austrian census: [1]
In 1910, population of the kingdom included:[1]
According to the 1910 Austrian census:
The major cities were (1900):
Dalmatia consisted of 13 districts, whose capitals were:
The Roman Catholic archbishop had his seat in Zadar, while the diocese of Kotor, diocese of Hvar, diocese of Dubrovnik, diocese of Šibenik and diocese of Split were bishoprics. At the head of the Orthodox community stood the bishop of Zadar.
The use of Croatian-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 20th 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."
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| Antiquity | |
| Illyria | |
| Dalmatae | |
| Roman Province | |
| Middle Ages | |
| Dalmatian principalities | |
| Early modern period | |
| Republic of Ragusa | |
| Republic of Poljica | |
| Hvar Rebellion | |
| Republic of Venice | |
| 19th century | |
| Illyrian Provinces | |
| Kingdom of Dalmatia | |
| 20th century | |
| Littoral Banovina | |
| Governorate of Dalmatia | |
| War of Independence | |
| In northern Dalmatia | |
| In central Dalmatia | |
| In southern Dalmatia | |
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The Kingdom of Dalmatia held elections to the Parliament of Dalmatia in 1861, 1864, 1867, 1870, 1876, 1883, 1889, 1895, 1901, 1908.
In the 1907 elections, Dalmatia elected the following representatives to the Reichsrat:[2]
In the 1911 elections, Dalmatia elected the following representatives:[3]
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