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They had [[Italy|Italian]] communities in a dominant position and a cosmopolitan population (of Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Greek &  Jewish origin). Everybody spoke Italian and Venetian dialect, the “lingua franca” of the time.  

They had [[Italy|Italian]] communities in a dominant position and a cosmopolitan population (of Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Greek &  Jewish origin). Everybody spoke Italian and Venetian dialect, the “lingua franca” of the time.  

'''Helped''' by the [[Austria|Austrian]] government (then all Eastern Adriatic coastline was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Croatians launched a political campaign against the “Italian Dalmatia” to annex the territory. Since the beginning it was an integral part of the political national aspirations of Croatians struggling to form their own state. It continued to be so during the turbulent formation of the first, monarchic, Yugoslavia, when Croatia accepted willy-nilly the Serbian domination. The Serbs and the Croatians continued the assault, violent, almost a civil war-against all Dalmatian towns inhabited by ethnic Italians.  

'''Helped''' by the [[Austria|Austrian]] government (then all Eastern Adriatic coastline was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Croatians launched a political campaign against the “Italian Dalmatia” to annex the territory. Since the beginning it was an integral part of the political national aspirations of Croatians struggling to form their own state. Following the first exodus toward the end of the 1800s, in 1905 in Rome a ''Dalmatian Italian Association'' to help the refugees was founded.  

Following a first exodus toward the end of the 1800s, in 1905 in Rome a ''Dalmatian Italian Association'' to help the refugees was founded. Then, after [[World War I|World War One]] tens of thousands of Dalmatian Italians abandoned their towns and villages in 1920-1930s and settled on Italian territory. During [[World War Two]] a third and final exodus.

This continued to be so during the turbulent formation of the first, monarchic, Yugoslavia, when Croatia accepted willy-nilly the Serbian domination. The Serbs and the Croatians continued the assault, violent, almost a civil war-against all Dalmatian towns inhabited by ethnic Italians. Then, after [[World War I|World War One]] tens of thousands of Dalmatian Italians abandoned their towns and villages in 1920-1930s and settled on Italian territory. During and after [[World War Two]] there was third and final exodus.

===Yugoslav Communist===

===Yugoslav Communist===