Coastal countries (Dalmatia)

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The coastal countries on a map from the 18th century
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The coastal region ( Latin [Regio] Maritima , Slavic Primorje , Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian  primorje, primorske zemlje or pomorje, pomorske zemlje ) was a region in Dalmatia in the Middle Ages that comprised the South Slavic principalities of Dioklitien (or Zetaah), Travunia and Zetaah on the Adriatic Sea .

The so-called "Chronicle of the Priest of Doclea ", also called "The Kingdom of the Slavs" (Regnum Sclavorum), dated to the 11th century , divides the Slavic kingdom into the coastal region ( Maritima = Primorye ) and the hinterland ( Transmontana = Zagorje ). The anonymous author, most likely a priest ( Presbyter Diocleas ), identifies the coastal region as Dalmatia , divided into Lower Dalmatia ( Dalmatia inferior ) and White Croatia ( Croatia alba ), up to the Neretva River and Upper Dalmatia ( Dalmatia superior ) and Red Croatia (Croatia rubea) , from the Neretva to the Albanian coast north of Durrës . Furthermore, reports of a later division of the hinterland into the countries of Raszien ( Rascia ) and Bosnia ( Bosna ) are reported.

From the late 13th century onwards, the Albanian coastal swaths were often added to the coastal land , with the result that the original character of the coastal lands was lost. At the same time, some Italian seaside cities such as Venice began to include the original Slavic coastal countries, often as part of Albania. For example, the Bay of Kotor was also known as the Venetian Albania under Venetian rule .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the priest of Duklja (Ljetopis' Popa Dukljanina) ( Memento from June 20, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Zdenko Zlatar: The Poetics of Slavdom: The Mythopoeic Foundations of Yugoslavia . tape 2 . Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8204-8135-7 , pp. 573 .