Its 16,182 (2001) inhabitants make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk and the most populous Croatian island not connected to the mainland by a bridge.

Two puppet districts were set up in the area, the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral and the Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills.

Strabo records another precinct of Aetolian Artemos at the head of the Adriatic.

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.

It is located on Monte Titano and you can see the Adriatic Sea from here.

Death In the early evening of 14 February 2004, Pantani was found dead at a hotel in Rimini, Italy.

Rijeka ( Italian and ) is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split).

And remember, 20 of these speed boats were coming across the Adriatic every single night.

It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient Ariminus) and Ausa (ancient Aprusa).

From 1994, for seven years, 20 of these boats made the trip across the Adriatic, from Montenegro to Italy, every single night.

Today this strip of land belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina and is that country's only direct access to the Adriatic.

The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner.

By 1168, nearly the whole of the eastern Adriatic coast lay in Manuel's hands.

Sophie wrote to Franz Ferdinand during his convalescence from tuberculosis on the island of Lošinj in the Adriatic.

Early life Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States.

During his reign was built one of the most fortified castle cities on the Adriatic Durrës Castle in Durrës.

Trogir is the best preserved Romanesque Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe.

In order to support each other in the process, new and potential members in that region formed the Adriatic Charter in 2003.

Constructed of Adriatic oak, Tonnant had been built in 1792 and Franklin and Spartiate were less than a year old.

The city became the centre of a new Italian territorial entity, called Governorship of Dalmatia, including the provinces of Zara (now Zadar), Cattaro (now Kotor), and Spalato (Split).

The bulk of the tourist industry is concentrated along the Adriatic and the Ionian Sea coast.

It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik Neretva County.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

Likewise, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, another neo Latin vernacular developed, which would later give rise to the Dalmatian language.

Istria ( Croatian, Slovene Istra Italian Istria Istriot Eîstria German Istrien ), formerly Histria (Latin), is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea.

Each of these armies traveled separately, some going southeast across Europe through Hungary and others sailing across the Adriatic Sea from southern Italy.

The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Italy, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Slovenia.

With the Adriatic Sea to the east, it is bordered to the north by the Province of Bari, on the west by the Province of Taranto and to the south east by the Province of Lecce.

Additionally, Čemerski compared the development of maritime terminology in other Slavic languages, in particular those used along the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

It is bordered by the other Italian regions of Molise to the north, Campania to the west, and Basilicata to the southwest.

The peninsula is bordered by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the west, the Ionian Sea on the south, and the Adriatic Sea on the east.

Geography Molise is bordered by Abruzzo to the north, Apulia to the east, Lazio to the west and Campania to the south.

As the capital of the Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic, the city achieved a high level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries.

However, the city has even greater potential as many tourists that visit Croatia skip Zagreb in order to visit the beaches along the Croatian Adriatic coast and old historic Renaissance cities such as Dubrovnik, Split, and Zadar.

In early 31 BC, while Antony and Cleopatra were temporarily stationed in Greece, Octavian gained a preliminary victory when the navy under the command of Agrippa successfully ferried troops across the Adriatic Sea.

Albania was admitted to the Comecon on 22 February 1949 and Albania remained important both as a way to put pressure on Yugoslavia and also to serve as a pro Soviet force in the Adriatic Sea.

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.

I A will support crossborder cooperation with neighbouring Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and with Italy through the I A Adri atic programme.

Since Rijeka, Trieste and Zadar, the three other large cities on the eastern Adriatic coast, were annexed by Italy, Split became the most important port in the Kingdom.

Tomislav was the first ruler of Croatia who was styled a king in a letter from the Pope John X, dating kingdom of Croatia to year 925.

The Adriatic's salinity is lower than the Mediterranean's because the Adriatic collects a third of the fresh water flowing into the Mediterranean, acting as a dilution basin.

The Po, Italy's longest river (652 km 405 mi), flows from the Alps on the western border with France and crosses the Padan plain on its way to the Adriatic Sea.

Strategically, the Adriatic Sea was also attractive to China, and the Chinese leadership had hoped to gain more allies in Eastern Europe with the help of Albania, although this failed.

Geography Overlooking the Adriatic Sea in south eastern Italy, the Province of Bari is located in the central part of Apulia and is bordered on the west by the provinces of Matera and Potenza, to the north by the province of Barletta Andria Trani, and to the south by the provinces of Taranto and Brindisi.

Geography Facing east on the Northern Adriatic Sea, the province is bordered to the northeast by the Province of Udine and Province of Pordenone, south by the Province of Rovigo, and to the west by the Province of Padua and Province of Treviso.