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Kingdom of Dalmatia

Kingdom of Dalmatia
Kraljevina Dalmacija
Königreich Dalmatien
Regno di Dalmazia
Crown land of the Austrian Empire and of Cisleithania in Austria-Hungary
1815–1918
Flag Coat of arms
Dalmatia (red) in Austria-Hungary, 1914
Capital Zadar
Languages Croatian, Italian
Religion Roman Catholic
Government Constitutional monarchy
King
 •  1815–1835 Francis I
 •  1835–1848 Ferdinand I
 •  1848–1916 Francis Joseph I
 •  1916–1918 Charles I
Governor
 •  1815–1831 Franjo Tomašić (first)
 •  1911–1918 Mario Attems (last)
Legislature Diet of Dalmatia
Historical era New Imperialism / WWI
 •  Congress of Vienna 22 June 1815
 •  Independence 29 October 1918
Area
 •  1910 12,831 km² (4,954 sq mi)
Population
 •  1910 est. 645,666 
     Density 50.3 /km²  (130.3 /sq mi)
Currency Gulden,
(1815–1892)
Krone
(1892–1918)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Illyrian Provinces
State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
Today part of  Croatia
 Montenegro

The Kingdom of Dalmatia Croatian: Kraljevina Dalmacija German: Königreich Dalmatien; Italian: Regno di Dalmazia) was a crown land of the Austrian Empire (1815–1867) and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). It encompassed the entirety of the region of Dalmatia with its capital at Zadar.

The Habsburg Monarchy had annexed the lands of Dalmatia after the Napoleonic War of the First Coalition: when Napoleon Bonaparte launched his Italian Campaign into the Habsburg duchies of Milan and Mantua in 1796, culminating in the Siege of Mantua, he compelled Emperor Francis II to make peace. In 1797 the Treaty of Campo Formio was signed, whereby the Habsburg emperor renounced possession of the Austrian Netherlands and officially recognized the independence of the Italian Cisalpine Republic. In turn, Napoleon ceded to him the possessions of the Republic of Venice, including the Dalmatian coast (Venetian Dalmatia) and the Bay of Kotor (Venetian Albania). La Serenissima had sided with Austria in order to defend her Domini di Terraferma and was occupied by French troops on 14 May 1797. The treaty ended the centuries-long history of the Venetian Republic.


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