The shield and lions stand on a silhouette of Mount Kenya containing in the foreground examples of Kenya agricultural produce coffee, pyrethrum, sisal, tea, maize and pineapples.

Ladislaus of Naples also sold the whole of Dalmatia to Venice in 1409.

Later, the Byzantines formed the Theme of Dalmatia in the same territory.

It lies 27 kilometres (17 miles) west of the city of Split.

Orlando was prepared to renounce territorial claims for Dalmatia to annex Rijeka (or Fiume as the Italians called the town) the principal seaport on the Adriatic Sea while Sonnino was not prepared to give up Dalmatia.

The Mongols attacked the Dalmatian cities for the next few years but eventually withdrew without major success.

After the invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia, Italy annexed numerous Adriatic islands and a portion of Dalmatia that was formed into the Italian Governorship of Dalmatia including territory from the provinces of Spalato, Zara, and Cattaro.

A consistent period of Hungarian rule in Dalmatia was ended with the Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241.

Its members were apparently natives of Campania, and other branches appeared in Dalmatia, Africa, Gallia Narbonensis, and Aegyptus.

The most distinctive features of Croatian folklore include klapa ensembles of Dalmatia, tamburitza orchestras of Slavonia.

As the Turks took control of the hinterland, many Christians took refuge in the coastal cities of Dalmatia.

He lived out his retirement in his palace on the Dalmatian coast, tending to his vegetable gardens.

By the Treaty of Campo Formio, he ceded the left bank of the Rhine to France in exchange for Venice and Dalmatia.

The Byzantines also lost their influence over the Dalmatian coastal cities to Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (r. 1058 1074 1075) in 1069.

Nowadays, the region's hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges in width from fifty kilometres in the north, to just a few kilometres in the south.

During the war, the losing contender, Ladislaus of Naples, sold his rights on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for a mere 100,000 ducats.

There was a desire to annex Dalmatian territories, which had formerly been ruled by the Venetians, and which consequently had Italian speaking elites.

Christian tradition makes him a native of the Dalmatian city of Salona, today Solin near Split, the son of a man also named Caius, and a member of a noble family related to the Emperor Diocletian.

The much more centralized Republic came to control all of Dalmatia by the year 1420, it was to remain under Venetian rule for 377 years (1420 1797).

After the Great Turkish War and the Peace of Passarowitz, more peaceful times made Dalmatia experience a period of certain economic and cultural growth in the 18th century, with the re establishment of trade and exchange with the hinterland.

The princes of Bribir from the Šubić family became particularly influential, asserting control over large parts of Dalmatia, Slavonia and Bosnia.

Fall and rule in Dalmatia On August 28, 475, Orestes took control of the government at Ravenna and forced Nepos to flee by ship to Dalmatia.

Maia municipality was crossed in 1809 by the Napoleonic army of the Duke of Dalmatia, the Marshal Soult, which was going from Braga to Porto.

Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the Emperor Carus.

History Antiquity Dalmatia's name is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae who lived in the area of the eastern Adriatic coast in the 1st millennium BC.

Orlando was encouraged in his support of the Allies because of secret promises made by the latter promising significant Italian territorial gains in Dalmatia at the 1915 London Pact.

The armies swept the plains of Hungary over the summer and in the spring of 1242, regained impetus and extended their control into Austria and Dalmatia and Moravia.

The Mongols severely impaired the feudal state, so much so that that same year, King Béla IV had to take refuge in Dalmatia, as far south as the Klis fortress.

Gratian sent generals to clear the dioceses of Illyria (Pannonia and Dalmatia) of Goths, and Theodosius was able finally to enter Constantinople on 24 November 380, after two seasons in the field.

Wars against the Arabs In the early years of Basil I's reign, Arab raids on the coasts of Dalmatia were successfully repelled, and the region once again came under secure Byzantine control.

Between 6 and 9 AD the Dalmatians raised the last in a series of revolts together with the Pannonians, but it was finally crushed and in 10 AD Illyricum was split into two provinces, Pannonia and Dalmatia.

20th century Kingdom of Yugoslavia After the end of World War I and the dissolution of Austria Hungary, the province of Dalmatia, along with Split, became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The crusaders accepted the suggestion that in lieu of payment they assist the Venetians in the capture of the (Christian) port of Zara in Dalmatia (vassal city of Venice, which had rebelled and placed itself under Hungary's protection in 1186).

) Juvenalis military tribune of the 1st cohort of the Dalmatian (legions) Duovir, Quinquennalis, Flamen of the Divine Vespasian vowed and dedicated at his own expense ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum X.5382)Scholars are usually of the opinion that this inscription does not relate to the poet himself a military career would not fit well with the pronounced anti militarism of the Satires , and moreover the Dalmatian legions do not seem to have existed prior to 166 AD.

The coastland areas of Dalmatia and Istria were subject to Roman Empire, Venetian and Italian rule central regions like Lika and western Herzegovina were a scene of battlefield against the Ottoman Empire, and have strong epic traditions.

Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns Zadar ('), Trogir ('), Spalato (Split '), Ragusa (Dubrovnik '), and Kotor ('), each of these cities having a local dialect, and on the islands of Krk ('), Cres (') and Rab (').