Dalmatia

Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian ?????????) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, mostly in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast.

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The historical region of Dalmatia was much larger than the present-day Dalmatia.

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Dalmatia signified not only a geographical unit, but it was an entity based on common culture and settlement types, a common narrow eastern Adriatic coastal belt, Mediterranean climate, sclereophyllus vegetation of the Illyrian vegetation province, Adriatic carbonate platform, and karst morphology.

Related Topics:
Mediterranean climate - Sclereophyllus - Carbonate platform - Karst

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Among other things, the ecclestiastical primatical territory today continues to be larger because of the history: it includes part of modern Montenegro (another former republic of Tito's Yugoslavia), notably around Antivari, the (honorary) Roman Catholic primas of Dalmatia, but an exempt archbishopric without suffragans while the archbishoprics of Split (also a historical primas of Dalmatia) has provincial authority over all Croatian dioceses except he exempt archbishopric of Zadar.

Related Topics:
Montenegro - Tito - Yugoslavia - Antivari - Primas

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The most southern transitional part of Dalmatia, the Bay of Kotor is not part of Croatian Dalmatia, but part of Montenegro. The regional coherent geographical unit of Dalmatia, the coastal region between Istria and the Bay of Kotor, includes the Orjen mountain whose peak at 1894 m is the highest point, even if it is part of Montenegro. If we take Dalmatia only as a political unit, the highest peak would be Dinara (1913 m) which is not a coastal mountain. On the other hand, Biokovo (Sv. Jure 1762 m) and Velebit (Vaganjski vrh 1758 m) are coastal Dinaric mountains but not as high as Orjen. In the tectonical sense, Orjen is the highest mountain of Dalmatia, while Biokovo is the highest mountain of the administrative unit of Dalmatia.

Related Topics:
Montenegro - Istria - Bay of Kotor - Orjen

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