Review article

In the fold of Serenissima: Venetian Republic and the Croatian Adriatic

Lovorka Čoralić orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-7221 ; Hrvatski institut za povijest

Abstract

During its long existence, the Republic of Venice occupied a highly important place in the historical development of the East Adriatic Coast. The centuries of the Venetian rule over the major portion of the Croatian coast determined, to a great extent, the basic components of the political, economic and cultural history
of the peoples on both sides of the Adriatic. The administrative and political unity (integration of the Croatian coastline into the system of the Venetian trans-Adriatic acquisitions), economic relations (trade, shipping and seafaring), influences and interactions in the fields of culture and arts (the exchange of artists across the Adriatic) and human communication and migration (the centurieslong
existence of a Croatian emigrant community in Venice and the simultaneous activity of numerous Venetians in urban communities of the East Adriatic) are the main determinants and the key to the understanding of the Croatian and the Venetian past. In this text, which does not aim at comprehensiveness, we succinctly analyze the basic components of the centuries-long Croatian-Venetian bonds and interactions. We then try to indicate the key events and the consequences of the Venetian rule over the majority of the Adriatic, as well as the importance that, over the centuries of co-existence in a common state, Croatian territories came to have for the history of Serenissima.

Keywords

Venice; Venetian Republic; Croatian history; Eastern Adriatic Coast; Croatian-Venetian connections

Hrčak ID:

47983

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/47983

Publication date:

28.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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