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[[File:85px-Coat of arms of Dalmatia crowned.svg.png|thumb|right|125px|Dalmatia's Coat of arms]]

[[File:85px-Coat of arms of Dalmatia crowned.svg.png|thumb|right|125px|Dalmatia's Coat of arms]]

'''Dalmatian Italians''' are a historical national minority in the region of Dalmatia which is now part of [[Croatia]].  

'''Dalmatian Italians''' are a historical national minority in the region of Dalmatia which is now predominately part of [[Croatia]].  

When [[Austria]] occupied the region of Dalmatia in '''1815''' the Venetian (Italian) population made up, (''according'' to the Italian linguist Bartoli) nearly one third of Dalmatia in the first half of the 19th century. The 1816 Austro-Hungarian census registered 66 000 Italian speaking people among the 301 000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, or 22% of the total Dalmatian population. After [[World War II]], the Dalmatian Italian population was reduced to 300 in Dalmatia and 500 in Montenegro. <ref>[http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Encyclopedia%20of%20Genocide%20and%20Crimes%20Against%20Humanity%20Dinah%20Shelton%20ethnic%20Italians%20fled%20to%20Italy%20in%20the%20late%201940s%20and%201950s&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Volume 3] by Dinah Shelton Macmillan Reference, 2005 - Political Science (p.1170)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/yugoslavia|title="Yugoslavia." Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Gale Cengage, 2005. eNotes.com. 2006. 24 Nov, 2010 |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-11-25}}

When [[Austria]] occupied the region of Dalmatia in '''1815''' the Venetian (Italian) population made up, (''according'' to the Italian linguist Bartoli) nearly one third of Dalmatia in the first half of the 19th century. The 1816 Austro-Hungarian census registered 66 000 Italian speaking people among the 301 000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, or 22% of the total Dalmatian population. After [[World War II]], the Dalmatian Italian population was reduced to 300 in Dalmatia and 500 in Montenegro. <ref>[http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Encyclopedia%20of%20Genocide%20and%20Crimes%20Against%20Humanity%20Dinah%20Shelton%20ethnic%20Italians%20fled%20to%20Italy%20in%20the%20late%201940s%20and%201950s&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Volume 3] by Dinah Shelton Macmillan Reference, 2005 - Political Science (p.1170)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/yugoslavia|title="Yugoslavia." Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Gale Cengage, 2005. eNotes.com. 2006. 24 Nov, 2010 |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-11-25}}