This was the largest Yugoslav state, as Istria, Rijeka and Zadar were added to the new Yugoslavia after the end of World War II.

This airplane was named Zadar.

Although they were supposed to be sailing to Egypt, Dandolo convinced them to stop at Zadar, a port city on the Adriatic that was claimed both by Venice and by the Kingdom of Hungary.

Zadar was besieged and captured on November 15, 1202.

The name of the Liburnian settlement was first mentioned by a Greek inscription from Pharos ( Stari grad ) on the island of Hvar in 384 BC, where the citizens of Zadar were noted as ( Iadasinoi ).

That early change was also reflected in the Croatian name Zadar ( recorded as Zader in the 12th century ), developed from Zadъrъ by vocalizations of the semi-vowel and a shift to male gender.

Zara was later used by the Austrian Empire in the 19th century, but it was provisionally changed to Zadar / Zara from 1910 to 1920 ; from 1920 to 1947 the city became part of Italy as Zara, and finally was named Zadar later on.

An expedition of 10, 000 men in 300 ships sailed out from Zadar and laid siege to the Greek colony Pharos in the island of Hvar, but the Syracusan fleet of Dionysus was alerted and attacked the siege fleet.

Caesar was supported by the urban Liburnian centres, like Iader ( Zadar ), Aenona ( Nin ) and Curicum ( Krk ), while the city of Issa ( Vis ) and the rest of the Liburnians gave their support to Pompey.

Already by the end of the 3rd century Zadar had its own bishop and founding of the Zadar Christian community took place ; a new religious centre was built north of the forum together with a basilica and a baptistery, as well as other ecclesiastical buildings.

The Dalmatian capital Salona was captured and destroyed in the 40s of the 7th century, so Zadar became the new seat of the Byzantine archonty of Dalmatia, territorially reduced to a few coastal cities with their agers and municipal lands at the coast and the islands nearby.

The Franks held Zadar for a short time, but the city was returned to Byzantium by a decision of the 812 Treaty of Aachen.

Tribute previously paid by Zadar to Croatian kings, was redirected to Venice, a state of affairs which lasted for several years.

Zadar citizens started to work for the full independence of Zadar and from the 30's of the 11th century the city was just formally a vassal of the Byzantine Empire.

The head of this movement was the mightiest Zadar patrician family-the Madi.

After negotiations with Byzantium, Zadar was attached to the Croatian state led by king Petar Krešimir IV in 1069.

Zadar was especially devastated in 1202 after the Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo used the Crusaders, on their Fourth Crusade to Palestine, to lay siege to the city.

13, 43-67 ( 1988 ), UDK 904. 930. 2 ( 497. 13 )>> 65 <<, page 47 </ ref > Due to its geographical position, Zadar developed into a main seat of the Liburnian thalassocracy and took a leading role in the Liburnian tetradekapolis, an organization of 14 communes.

Zadar ( Iader ) and the other cities of Liburnian tetradekapolis in the age of the Roman conquest

The archaeological remains have shown that the main centres of Liburnian territorial units or municipalities were already urbanized in the last centuries BC ; before the Roman conquest, Zadar held a territory of more than 600 km2 in the 2nd century BC.

In 49 BC near the island of Krk, the " Navy of Zadar ", equipped by the fleets of a few Liburnian cities and supported by some Roman ships, lost an important naval battle against Pompey supporting the " Liburnian navy ".

Historian Theopompus ( 377-320 BC ) informed about the island groups in the Adriatic Sea: Apsartides ( Cres and Lošinj ), Elektrides ( Krk ), while all the others were the Liburnian islands-Liburnides, from Zadar archipelago to Ladesta ( Lastovo ) in the south, including Paros ( Hvar ).

At the end of the 8th century Charlemagne conquered Pannonia and Dacia, then Istria, Liburnia and Dalmatia, but the main littoral Liburnian and Dalmatian cites, however, remained under Byzantine control, organized to a Dalmatian archonty with Jadera ( Zadar ) in status of a provincial metropolis.

" Navy of Iader " ( Zadar ) probably equipped by mixed Liburnian and Roman ships confronted " Liburnian navy " in service to Pompey, equipped only with Liburnians in their liburna galleys.

liburnskih cipusa ," group of Liburnian gravestones, so called cippi ”, Diadora, 12: 209-299, Zadar, 1990 ; Diadora, 13, Zadar, 1991, 169-211.

Luciano Laurana ( Lutiano Dellaurana, ) ( c. 1420 – 1479 ) was an architect and engineer from the historic Vrana settlement near the town of Zadar in Dalmatia, Croatia ( then under Venetian jurisdiction ).

* Grab, Zadar County, a settlement of Gračac, Croatia

10, 000 Liburnians sailed out from their capital Idassa ( Zadar ) led by Iadasinoi ( people of Zadar ) and laid a siege of Pharos.

In the 18th century when the industrial production of this liqueur began, Maraschino set out from Zadar and " sailed " into ever more important European ports and major cities.

At the beginning of the 9th century the Zadar bishop Donatus and the city duke Paul mediated in the dispute between the Holy Roman empire under Pepin and the Byzantine Empire.

Pre-Romanesque Church of St. Donatus in Zadar, from the 9th century

The largest and most complicated central-based church from the 9th century is the church of St Donatus in Zadar.

The oldest preserved examples of Croatian architecture are the 9th century churches, with the largest and the most representative among them being Donatus of Zadar.

Pre-Romanesque Church of Donatus of Zadar | St Donatus in Zadar, from the 9th century.

The largest and most complicated central based church from the 9th century is dedicated to Saint Donatus in Zadar.

* Saint Donatus of Zadar, Dalmatian bishop from early 9th century ( feast day February 25 ).

In the next centuries Croatian language overlaid Dalmatian language spoken in Liburnia and Dalmatia and already by the end of the 9th century, in the islands of Zadar aquatory, more than 70 % of toponyms were Slavic forms.

In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres and Lošinj ; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were also findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Međimurje and Slovenia.

By the 7th century BC, Zadar had become an important centre for their trading activities with the Phoenicians, Etruscans, Ancient Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples.

In the 5th century, under the rule of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, Zadar became poor with many civic buildings turning into ruins due to its advanced age.

Even though interspersed by sieges and destruction, the time between 11th and 14th century was the golden age of Zadar.

Ottomans captured the continental part of Zadar at the beginning of the 16th century and the city itself was all the time in the range of Turkish artillery.

During the second part of the 19th century, Zadar was subject to the same policy enacted by the Austrian Empire in South-Tyrol, the Austrian Littoral and Dalmatia and consisting in fostering the local German or Slavic culture at the expense of the Italian and Ottoman.

However, during this period the city lost its status as the capital of the region, with Split overwhelmingly surpassing Zadar in population numbers, which, though increasing throughout the 20th century, boomed in the new, post-WWII, Yugoslavia.

They were completely buried during the Italian occupation until that in 1873, under Austrian rule, the ramparts of Zadar were converted from fortifications into elevated promenades commanding extensive seaward and landward views, thus being the wall lines preserved ; of its four old gates one, the Porta Marina, incorporates the relics of a Roman arch, and another, the Porta di Terraferma, was designed in the 16th century by the Veronese artist Michele Sanmicheli.

In the second half of the 19th century, Zadar was a centre of the movement for the cultural and national revivals in Dalmatia ( Italian and Croatian ).

Distilleries in Zadar have produced Maraschino since the 16th century.

In the 20th century, roads became more important than sea routes, but Zadar remained an important traffic point.

The first known recipe for this liqueur was written by the apothecaries of the Dominican monastery at Zadar, in the Venetian Dalmatia, at the beginning of the 16th century.