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ZADAR - NIN

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia,
is a democratic parliamentary republic at the crossroads
of Central Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

Zadar is the oldest continuously-inhabited Croatian city.

It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region.

Zadar serves as the seat of Zadar County and of the wider northern Dalmatian region.

The area of present-day Zadar traces its earliest evidence of human life from the late Stone Age, while numerous settlements date as early as the Neolithic

In 59 BC it was renamed Iadera when it became a Roman municipium. In 48 BC it became a Roman colonia.

During Roman rule Zadar acquired the characteristics of a traditional Ancient Roman city with
a regular road network, a public square ( forum), and an elevated capitolium with a temple.

In 1202 the Venetians, with the help of Crusaders, reconquered and sacked Zadar.

After the fall of Venice in 1797 Zadar came under the Austrian rule until 1918, except for the period of short-term French rule (1805–1813), still remaining the capital of Dalmatia.

With the 1920 Treaty of Rapallo Zadar was given to the Kingdom of Italy.

Today, Zadar is a historical center of Dalmatia, Zadar County's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, educational, and transportation centre.

Zadar is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zadar.

UNESCO's World Heritage Site list included the fortified city of Zadar as part of Venetian Works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra.

Zadar, Croatia, 11.06.2019.

Nin (Italian: Nona, Latin: Aenona or Nona)
is a town in the Zadar County of Croatia,
total municipality population 2,744 (2011).

Nin's historical center is located on an islet only 500 meters in diameter.
Nin was historically important as a centre of a medieval Christian Bishopric.

Up to the abolition and Latinization imposed by King Tomislav in the first half of the 10th century, Nin was the centre of the autonomous Croatian branch of the Church.

Nin was also the seat of the Princes of Dalmatia.

Nin is situated in a lagoon on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, surrounded by natural sandy beaches and linked with the mainland by two stone bridges from the 16th century.

According to historians the area of Nin appears to have been settled 10,000 years ago.

The present-day town on the islet developed 3,000 years ago and is one of the older towns on the eastern Adriatic.

The area of Nin was first colonized by immemorial people of the Mediterranean.

NIN, Croatia, 11.06.2019.

Since the 9th century B.C. the civilization of the Illyrian tribe of Liburnians was present before the Romans came,
who had a strong sea and trade center called Aenona (this morphed in the Middle Ages into Nona).

The rich archeological finds prove strong sea links with Greece and the Hellenistic world:
recent explorations revealed a rarity, a very well preserved Byzantine mosaic on the floor of a Roman villa.

NIN, Croatia, 11.06.2019.