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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region of the northwest Balkan Peninsula on the Adriatic Sea in present-day Croatia. Subdued by the Romans in the 1st century BC, it was divided between the kingdoms of Serbia and Croatia in the 10th century and held by numerous powers after the 15th century.
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- proper noun A region in
Croatia , on the easterncoast of theAdriatic Sea . - proper noun A historic
Roman province .
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- noun a historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea; mountainous with many islands
Etymologies
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[17] For Dalmatia, see T.G. Jackson, _Dalmatia &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Here we are: some of the great plates from Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia by Robert Adam, a Scottish architect who visited Split during the last forty years of Venetian rule (which ended in 1797).
Photography, Space, and the Brain: In Appreciation of Drawing Heather McDougal 2008
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I'm thrilled to have discovered the Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia by Robert Adam, a Scottish neoclassical architect who is "considered by many to be the greatest architect of the late 18th century" [wiki].
Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out) Heather McDougal 2008
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Here we are: some of the great plates from Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia by Robert Adam, a Scottish architect who visited Split during the last forty years of Venetian rule (which ended in 1797).
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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I'm thrilled to have discovered the Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia by Robert Adam, a Scottish neoclassical architect who is "considered by many to be the greatest architect of the late 18th century" [wiki].
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Even in Dalmatia I found, in many old-fashioned houses, the ladies of the family waiting upon the guests.
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The meaning of the name Dalmatia or Delmatia, which is of Arnautic origin, is "land of shepherds" (delminium — pasture for sheep).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Scribonianus, who took up arms in Dalmatia against Claudius, and was deserted by his own troops in five days, the second, L. Antonius, in Germany, who rebelled against Domitian; and the third,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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71 But the principal forces of the Goths were dispersed in Dalmatia, Venetia, and Gaul; and the feeble mind of their king was confounded by the unsuccessful event of a divination, which seemed to presage the downfall of his empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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YUGOSLAVIA 1919 Troops/Marines intervene for Italy against Serbs in Dalmatia.
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