Kingdom of Dalmatia
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| Dalmatae | |||
| Dalmatia (Roman province) | |||
| Pagania | |||
| Republic of Ragusa | |||
| Republic of Poljica | |||
| Illyrian provinces | |||
| Kingdom of Dalmatia | |||
| Littoral Banovina | |||
The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division (kingdom) of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.
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[edit] 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).
[edit] Demographics
The 1880 Austrian census recorded following ethnic groups in the Kingdom:
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)
[edit] Religion (1900)
Roman Catholicism is the religion of more than 80% of the population, the remainder belonging chiefly to the Orthodox Church. The Roman Catholic archbishop has his seat in Zara, while Cattaro, Lesina, Ragusa, Sebenico and Spalato are bishoprics. At the head of the Orthodox community stands 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 There was considerable danger that the Latin liturgies would be altogether superseded by the Glagolitic, especially among the northern islands and in rural communes, where the Slavonic element is all-powerful.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." This view is shared by very many, perhaps by the majority, of the Roman Catholics in Dalmatia.
