Venetian Albania

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The Venetian Republic in 1560 and the Venetian Albania shown as the pink area south of the Republic of Dubrovnik around Kotor.

Venetian Albania (Italian: Albania Veneta) was the name for the possessions of the Venetian Republic in southern Dalmatia that existed from 1420 to 1797. It originally covered the coastal area of what is now northern Albania and the coast of Montenegro, but the Albanian and southern Montenegrin parts were lost to the Ottomans in 1571 [1].

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[edit] Name and geography

The word "Veneta" in the Italian name of Venetian Albania (Albania Veneta) was used to differentiate the area from the Ottoman Albania (Albania Ottomana), an area stretching from Kosovo to southern Albania [2].

These Venetian possessions stretched from the southern borders of the Republic of Dubrovnik to Durrës in coastal Albania. The Venetian territories never reached more than 20 km from the Adriatic Sea. After 1573 the southern limit was moved to the village of Kufin) near Budva, because of the Ottoman conquests of Bar, and Ulcinj in the Balkans.
The Venetian territory was centered around the area of the Bay of Kotor and included the towns of Kotor, Risan, Perast, Tivat, Herceg Novi, Budva, and Sutomore.

[edit] History

Venice periodically controlled the small southern Dalmatian villages around in the 10th century, but did not permanently assume control until 1420. The Venetians assimilated the Dalmatian language into the Venetian dialect quickly. The Venetian territories around Kotor lasted from 1420 to 1797 and were called Venetian Albania, a province of the Venetian Republic[3].

When the Turks started to conquer the Balkans in 15th century, the population of Christian Slavs in Dalmatia increased greatly. By the end of 17th century the Romance speaking population of the historical Venetian Albania was a minority, according to Oscar Randi in his book Dalmazia etnica, incontri e fusioni.[4]

After the French Empire conquered and dissolved the Venetian Republic in 1797, the area of Venetian Albania became part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy,[5] and then in 1809 it was included in the French Illyrian Provinces. In 1814 it was included in the Austrian Empire.

[edit] Population

Albanians lived in the south of the Venetian Albania around Ulcinj and Durrës. The area around Kotor was populated by Slavs and Romance-speakers and was fully Catholic.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cecchetti, Bartolomeo. pp. 978–983. 
  2. ^ Paulucci, Luigi. Le Bocche di Cattaro nel 1810. pag. 24
  3. ^ Durant, Will. The Renaissance. pag. 121
  4. ^ Randi, Oscar. Dalmazia etnica, incontri e fusioni. pag. 37-38
  5. ^ Sumrada, Janez. Napoleon na Jadranu / Napoleon dans l'Adriatique.pag. 159
  6. ^ Durant, Will. The Renaissance.pag. 139

[edit] Sources

[edit] Bibliography

  • Bartl, Peter. Le picciole Indie dei Veneziani. Zur Stellung Albaniens in den Handelsbeziehungen zwischen der Balkan- und der Appenninenhalbinsel. In: Münchner Zeitschrift für Balkankunde 4 (1981-1982) 1-10.
  • Bartl, Peter. Der venezianische Türkenkrieg im Jahre 1690 nach den Briefen des päpstlichen Offiziers Guido Bonaventura. In: Südost-Forschungen 26 (1967) 88-101.
  • Bartoli, Matteo. Le parlate italiane della Venezia Giulia e della Dalmazia. Tipografia italo-orientale. Grottaferrata 1919.
  • Cecchetti, Bartolomeo. Intorno agli stabilimenti politici della repubblica veneta nell'Albania. In: Atti del Regio Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti. Bd. 3, Seria 4, S. 978-998. 1874.
  • De Brodmann, Giuseppe. Memorie politico-economiche della citta e territorio di Trieste, della penisola d’Istria, della Dalmazia fu Veneta, di Ragusi e dell’Albania, ora congiunti all’Austriaco Impero. Venezia 1821.
  • De Castro, Diego. Dalmazia, popolazione e composizione etnica. Cenno storico sul rapporto etnico tra Italiani e Slavi nella Dalmazia. ISPI 1978.
  • Durant, Will. The Renaissance. MJK Books. New York, 1981.
  • Gelcich, Giuseppe. Memorie storiche sulle bocche di Cattaro. Zara 1880.
  • Martin, John Jeffries. Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins UP. New York, 2002.
  • Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. Vintage Books. New York, 1989.
  • Paulucci, Luigi. Le Bocche di Cattaro nel 1810 Edizioni Italo Svevo.Trieste, 2005.
  • Randi, Oscar. Dalmazia etnica, incontri e fusioni. Tipografie venete. Venezia 1990.
  • Scaglioni Marzio. La presenza italiana in Dalmazia 1866-1943 Histria ed. Trieste,2000.
  • Schmitt, Oliver. Das venezianische Albanien (1392 - 1479). (=Südosteuropäische Arbeiten. 110). München 2001.
  • Sumrada, Janez. Napoleon na Jadranu / Napoleon dans l'Adriatique. Zalozba Annales. Koper, 2006.
  • Tagliavini, Carlo. Le origini delle lingue neolatine. Patron Ed. Bologna 1982.
  • Trogrli, Marko. Školstvo u Dalmaciji za francuske uprave/The french school system in French Dalmatia. Knjižnica Annales Majora. Koper, 2006.

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