Dalmatia
1
8.2
- proper noun
:
Dalmacia
- The lively commercial traffic in Zadar's port throughout history and the fact that both the French in the nineteenth century and later Italians chose Zadar as the capital of Dalmatia confirm the importance of the place.
- province of Dalmatia
Examples
-
The narrow land strip of Dalmatia lies on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, across the low and marshy Italian coast on the western side, which lacks islands.
Academic text (1993) -
Dalmatia, together with Pannonia in the north of the Balkan peninsula, became an important Roman province.
Academic text (1993) -
Due to these circumstances, the decline of commerce in Dalmatia was remarkable.
Academic text (1993) -
Reinforcements from Dalmatia approach from the north.
-
Salt was one of the main articles of Venetian export from Dalmatia.
Academic text (1993) -
With the arrival of Napoleon's troops, Dalmatia became the French province of Illyria.
Academic text (1993) -
Under Venice, a number of communes, semi-independent cities, emerged in Dalmatia.
Academic text (1993) -
In 1941, after the collapse of the Yugoslav Royal Army, Italy annexed Dalmatia with Zadar as its capital city.
Academic text (1993) -
In the central part of Dalmatia, Sibenik (Sebenico) was important mainly because of its fertile hinterland, which supplied the city and its environs with wheat.
Academic text (1993) -
I was born in the mountains of Dalmatia, he said.
Compounds
- Specialized
A white-flowered plant from the Balkans with divided leaves and silky white hairs underneath used as a natural insect killer
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Dalmatia comes from the name of an old local people, the Dalmatae, and from the town Delminium, and some people think the original word meant 'sheep'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of Dalmatian (the spotted dog) and the Croatian coast, because both names come from those old people, so Dalmatia means that historic coastal region.