Review article
Measures taken by Austria (Austro-Hungary) to strengthen Dalmatian shipping from 1850 to 1880
Tomislav Pejdo
; Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
After the Vienna congress in 1815, Dalmatia became a unified administrativepolitical entity within the framework of the Habsburg Monarchy. As an Austrian province, it came into being by joining together three territorial units: Boka Kotorska, Venetian Dalmatia and the Dubrovnik Republic which, although having existed for centuries on the same coast, lived their separate lives and developed a specific social physiognomy. The economic, linguistic and religious heterogeneity as well as its specific geographical location had a powerful influence on the process of Dalmatia’s economic and political development. The new administration brought about a series of significant political-administrative changes in Dalmatia in an attempt to consolidate its domination. From the middle of the XIXth century the idea that the authority of the Monarchy over the eastern Adriatic can be accomplished not only through the presence of a powerful navy but also through highly developed merchant shipping came more and more to the fore in Vienna.
Keywords
the province of Dalmatia; governorship; praetors; maritime district
Hrčak ID:
31841
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Publication date:
22.10.2008.
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