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'''Note''': Fausto Veranzio in 1617, (sixty-five years old) implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Today a Croatian Navy rescue ship bears the name ''Faust Vrančić''.
 
'''Note''': Fausto Veranzio in 1617, (sixty-five years old) implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Today a Croatian Navy rescue ship bears the name ''Faust Vrančić''.
 
[[File:427px-Fausto Veranzio.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Fausto Veranzio-Faust Vrančić]]
 
[[File:427px-Fausto Veranzio.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Fausto Veranzio-Faust Vrančić]]
[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
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*'''Encyclopedia Britannica'''-Dalmatia:
 
*'''Encyclopedia Britannica'''-Dalmatia:
 
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* "Ladislas,  (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)<ref>'''Note''': Added Dalmatia as it is ''referring'' to the country/province Dalmatia .</ref>  to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
 
* "Ladislas,  (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)<ref>'''Note''': Added Dalmatia as it is ''referring'' to the country/province Dalmatia .</ref>  to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
 
*Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between [[Italy]] and Yugoslavia gave all '''Dalmatia''' to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo. <ref>'''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Dalmatia</ref>}}
 
*Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between [[Italy]] and Yugoslavia gave all '''Dalmatia''' to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo. <ref>'''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Dalmatia</ref>}}
 
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[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
 
== References concerning Dalmatian ==
 
== References concerning Dalmatian ==
 
====Sir John Gardner Wilkinson====
 
====Sir John Gardner Wilkinson====
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