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[[File:427px-Fausto Veranzio.jpg|thumb|right|235px|Faust Vrančić (Fausto Veranzio)]]
[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Faust Vrančić's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
'''Faust Vrančić''' <ref>Pronounced in Croatian -''Vranchich''. The last ''ch'' is pronounced more softly.</ref> is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Faust Vrančić  (or ''[[Directory:Fausto Veranzio|Fausto Veranzio]]'') <ref>{{cite web|url=http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_Vrančić|title=Faust Vrančić, 2011. Sat. 04 June. 2011. |date=[[2011]]|accessdate=2011-06-04}}</ref><ref>'''Editors note''': Recent '''DNA''' studies have stated that more than three quarters of today's Croatian men are the descendants of Europeans who inhabited Europe 13 000-20 000 years ago. The first primary source (factual-that its authenticity isn't disputed) to mention the Croatian-Hrvat identity in the Balkans was '''Duke Branimir''' (Latin:'' "Branimiro comite dux cruatorum cogitavit"''  c. 880 AD). Branimir was a Slav from Dalmatia.</ref>  is a individual with a Dalmatian heritage.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref>  He was historically a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice''.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>  

Faust was born in Šibenik <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6GgyiMd6u8MC&pg=PA95&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+Sebenico&hl=en&ei=dNqSTdriN4X5cdCKzYkH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Fausto%20Veranzio%20Sebenico&f=false Ancient Engineers Inventions:] Precursors of the Present ''by'' Cesare Rossi, Flavio Russo & Ferruccio Russo (p95)</ref><ref>'''Editors note''': According to some sources the settlement Sibenik was established by Croatian Slavs in the 11th century, and was given its name, '''Šibenik''' (the Š is pronounced ''sh''). The term Slav was first used by the Byzantines (i.e. Procopius-Byzantine scholar, Jordanes- 6th century Roman bureaucrat) and was recorded in the 6th century (cia. 550) in Greek (Σκλαβῖνοι-Sklabenoi). Later in Latin it was written Sclaveni.  Slavic tribes invaded the region of''' Roman Dalmatia''' in the early Middle Ages. Prior to the arrival of the Slavs, Roman Dalmatia was mainly inhabited by a '''Roman Latin-Illyrian''' population. Šibenik was latter renamed '''Sebenico''' when in 1412 the city became part of the ''Republic of Venice'' (1412-1797). Its name was change to Šibenik by the Yugoslav regime in 1920.</ref> circa 1551 in '''Dalmatia''',  then a region of the ''Republic of Venice'' in todays modern Croatia. Dalmatia as a province, dates back to the Roman Empire <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j-0LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=Roman+empire+province+Dalmatia&hl=en&ei=jfupTJO8JYuSuwO49cTJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Roman%20empire%20province%20Dalmatia&f=false The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1] by Edward Gibbon (p158)</ref> and is several centuries older than Croatia itself. In the 19th century Dalmatia became a province of the [[Austria|Austro]]-Hungarian Empire (Kingdom of Dalmatia). Dalmatian as a region has a very multicultural and multiethnic history.

Faust was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute. 
*Wikipedia stated on 3rd of October 2010.  I have indicated the date because edits on Wikipedia are constant, some articles change daily:
{{Cquote| ''    ... he was a polymath and bishop from Croatia.''}} It must be stated as a '''fact''' that:
* Croatia itself has not been a sovereign independent state for nine centuries.
* Croatia only became a sovereign state 371 years after his death. 
* Dalmatia was '''not part''' of Croatia until the middle of the 20th century.<ref> Under the Treaty of Rapallo (in '''1920''' between [[Italy]] and the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenia.), Dalmatia became part of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenia which was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. After [[World War II]] Dalmatia was divided between three republics of [[Communists|Communist]] Yugoslavia. Most of the territory went to Croatia. In '''1991''' the [[Croatia|Republic of Croatia]] became independent.</ref><ref>Sections of the old Roman Dalmatian province were once part of the Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102). </ref>
*[[Italian language|Italian]] and Latin languages were then used extensively in Dalmatia. <ref>[http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:1oNK0Y3WzDAJ:scholar.google.com/+zbornik+150++godina++školstva++u++veloj++luci+Talijanski+je+jezik+bio+ne+samo+službeni+jezik&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 The Early Beginnings of Formal Education - Vela Luka (beginnings of literacy and Lower Primary School 1857 – 1870):] 
* ''"Italian language was not only the official language in all public Dalmatian establishments, but also was the spoken language in a significant number of white-collar, civil service and merchant families in the cities and major markets within towns"'' (p.8 written in Croatian)</ref> The region also had a significant [[Dalmatian Italians|Dalmatian Italian]] ethnic population.<ref>Concerning the Number of Italians/Pro-Italians in Dalmatia in the XIXth Century by Šime Peričić
* "It is true, then a small colony of [[Italy|Italians]] where in Sibenik, on the island of Korcula, Hvar and Vis, and other places of the province."</ref>
* Historically the term Croat became fully established as a constructed identity in the 19th century.

Certain individuals (''or'' organisations) are  using Wikipedia's article for biased nationalistic propaganda. It otherwise tainted a ''perfectly'' good article on this unique individual. Some of the Croatian [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|Wiki-Editors]] just can't separate ultra-extreme nationalistic propaganda from an unbiased historical perspective. Has Wikipedia become a gathering place for such editors?

*John Van Antwerp Fine (Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Michigan) on Croatian History:

{{Cquote|''There is no justification to falsify history to support ethnic ambitions. The Croats and their Balkan neighbours have done this in a major way'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wEF5oN5erE0C&pg=PA15&dq=When+ethnicity+did+not+matter+in+the+Balkans++falsify+history&hl=en&ei=vmmZTeq9O4_qvQOtmfj5Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false When Ethnicity did not Matter in the Balkans] by John Van Antwerp Fine (p15)</ref>}}



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