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− | [[Image:Zadar PortaTerraferma.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Venetian Gate of Zara]]
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| In the XIX century the cultural influence from [[Italy]] originated the creation in [[Zadar|Zara]] of the first dalmatian newspaper, edited in Italian and Croat: ''Il Regio Dalmata - Kraglski Dalmatin''. It was founded and published by the Italian Bartolomeo Benincasa in 1806. | | In the XIX century the cultural influence from [[Italy]] originated the creation in [[Zadar|Zara]] of the first dalmatian newspaper, edited in Italian and Croat: ''Il Regio Dalmata - Kraglski Dalmatin''. It was founded and published by the Italian Bartolomeo Benincasa in 1806. |
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| The Regio Dalmata - Kraglski Dalmatin was stamped in the tipography of Antonio Luigi Battara and was the first done in Croat language. | | The Regio Dalmata - Kraglski Dalmatin was stamped in the tipography of Antonio Luigi Battara and was the first done in Croat language. |
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− | The cultural influence from Italy is clearly evident in the urbanization plans of the main Dalmatian cities in the XIX/XX centuries. One of the best examples is the one of [[Split, Croatia|Spalato]].
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| ===Renaissance in Dalmatia=== | | ===Renaissance in Dalmatia=== |
| Besides mixing of gothic and renaissance style it was also original by unity of stone building and montage construction (big stone blocks, pilasters and ribs were bounded with joints and slots on them - without concrete) in the way that was usual in wooden constructions. This was unique building with so-called three-leaf frontal and half-barrel vaults, first in Europe. The cathedral and its original stone dome was finished by the tuscan [[Niccolò Fiorentino]] following the original plans. On the cathedral there is a coronal of 72 sculpture portraits on the outside wall of the apses. Giorgio da Sebenico himself did 40 of them, and all are unique with original characteristics on their faces. | | Besides mixing of gothic and renaissance style it was also original by unity of stone building and montage construction (big stone blocks, pilasters and ribs were bounded with joints and slots on them - without concrete) in the way that was usual in wooden constructions. This was unique building with so-called three-leaf frontal and half-barrel vaults, first in Europe. The cathedral and its original stone dome was finished by the tuscan [[Niccolò Fiorentino]] following the original plans. On the cathedral there is a coronal of 72 sculpture portraits on the outside wall of the apses. Giorgio da Sebenico himself did 40 of them, and all are unique with original characteristics on their faces. |
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| Furthermore there were in the Governatorato 10000 Italians who took the Yugoslav citizenship after WWI, in order to remain there and be accepted without problems by the new Yugoslavian regime after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZcUNELPsQQsC&pg=RA4-PA72&lpg=RA4-PA72&dq=italians+in+dalmatia&source=web&ots=9GMLoSA3Qw&sig=H1DBBQqVQnNiO9dD4IfcBS9dXEQ#PRA4-PA73,M1]</ref> | | Furthermore there were in the Governatorato 10000 Italians who took the Yugoslav citizenship after WWI, in order to remain there and be accepted without problems by the new Yugoslavian regime after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZcUNELPsQQsC&pg=RA4-PA72&lpg=RA4-PA72&dq=italians+in+dalmatia&source=web&ots=9GMLoSA3Qw&sig=H1DBBQqVQnNiO9dD4IfcBS9dXEQ#PRA4-PA73,M1]</ref> |
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| That means that in only one hundred years (from the 1850s to the 1950s) the Dalmatian Italians decreased from 45000 in the 1857 Austrian Census<ref> | | That means that in only one hundred years (from the 1850s to the 1950s) the Dalmatian Italians decreased from 45000 in the 1857 Austrian Census<ref> |