Show I Dalmatia Where Dalmatia Where Rival Claims Meet l i W Small wonder that Dalmatia should form one o of the tho most sharply contested contest contest- ed regions In the rival Italian and Ju Jugo Jugo- o- o slav SJ claims for or this strip of seacoast land for eight centuries has been swept by hy continuous racial tempests says sas a n bulletin tin just Issued Issue b by the National National Na Na- I a-I Geo Geographic society Bodel from Its Washington headquarters With an area about equal to Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- I Dalmatia Is so elongated d that I nowhere Is it more than thirty five fc I I miles wide e. e and antl It tapers down to but buta I a mile at Cattaro I With a climate of extreme temperatures temperatures temperatures tem tem- hot hol and dr dry when the sirocco co hot southeast winds sweeps 1 over It cold and wet vet when the dread bora or wind of tho the dead cernes from the theoa sea oa and terrorizes mariners along its shores peasants lIf life a struggle I The land Is not fertile much of or it isIs isis is isIs Is not arable at all 11 and a common ru rural rural rural ru- ru ral picture is that of or men and women cultivating grapes and figs an and olives on tei terraces races on tho the sides of the frequent frequent fre fre- quent hills Perhaps that lint is why hy these women so far as ns their work wort is concerned are aro sturdy and nd docile an and willingly willing len lend themselves as burden bearers and tillers till till- ers They are re primitive enough h to find rind relaxation in festivals weddings s fu funerals funerals funerals fu- fu and fetes and n at such times they form Corm the picturesque groups Dalmatian Dalmatian Dalmatian Dal Dal- matian travelers tell about bout with bright ht colored costumes headpieces decorated with coins an and dresses bedecked with jewels The Croats and nd Ser Serbians lans constitute the SlavIc Sla clement In Dalmatia The They speak the tho same language but employ two alphabets The Serbs use the Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian sinn and the Croats the Latin tin letters and alphabet In tho cities the Latin Influence nce is more prevalent The reason there there- for is the tho story ston of Dalmatia In the tite middle ages the tho Dalmatians were a people without tho the consciousness conscious ness of a country the Slav In Influx influx In- In flux into Illyria the invaders encountered encountered encountered opposition even In Dalmatia Dalma Dalma- tia except In the seaport towns The Latin element In the cities resisted the tho migration and antl thus engendered the strife for Cor supremacy which persists to I f this da day Much I of ot the early carly rivalry r was eco eco- Tradesmen and farmers f natural naturally naturally nat nat- ural wished to exchange their goods with Kith the die Hun Th Tho maritime I cities preferred to do business with withY Y Venice which controlled the Adriatic Though Dalmatia did not develop the the strong strong national feeling of or her Balkan Balkan Balkan Bal Bal- kan neighbors because of her mixed population she made mado rapid strides in science and literature But the story of or her culture is one of personal achievement rather than public ad- ad Thus it came carne about hout that this earl early seat scat o of Balkan an culture had no printing press In its its its- largest city Zara until and in tho the eighteenth century Venetian tI n Dalmatia had only one pub public le school ool I One On famous son of Dalmatia was Roger Hoger Joseph Boscovich c esteemed b by l 1 scientists for his work setting forth fortha a a. new atomic theory theor but hut moro more popularly popularly I Known because of or the adoption of or his Ills plan for assuring the uprightness of oC tho the dome of or St St. Peters Peter's at Rome when hen a crack was discovered disco in it He Ho taught experimented wrote numerous treaties went nent on a diplomatic mission lon lonto to England when the neutrality of or his native natie city Ra Ragusa usa was questioned and wrote rote verso as voluminously but not so successfully as ac he wrote scientific scientific act act- entitle works Upon one ono occasion ho he penned Latin lines JInes to set sel forth the fundamentals of or astronomy with copious footnotes which scientists ts asserted as as- were not helpful to them and anti which the public apparently did not I find readable t Marco Iaco Antonio de Dominis mingled mingle d l 1 I I theology and natural philosophy with serious consequences to himself He HeI set set forth foith the tho first correct explanation of ot the tho rainbow But Dut his theological career was less Jess fruitful As archbishop of ho he attacked his ecclesiastical cal superiors In his writings s fled to England returned to Rome and did penance with a a ropo rope about his neck in St. St Peters Peter's and wrote a look book refuting his heretical works Ho IIo was tr tried oCd by bythe bytho bytho tho the inquisition He died before tho the trial was ended but the trial went vent on Ho IIo was sentenced two months after his death dr-ath to he be dragged through the streets of or Rome and to be bo burned pub pub- His body was was was' removed from Its coffin coln and the tho sentence e executed Dalmatian beauties have o been recounted re recounted recounted re- re counted b by many travelers Among the tho scores of Islands off its coast are many rich In history such auch as Bra Brae Bral Braland and Lessina Roman a a Greek relics relIes are arc to be found B Bu with Its Hi ten caverns the most beau ful ul of or which Is the Blue Grotto by boat and t l c Ragusa Richard Coeur Lion Is said sald to have found a lint hav V during a storm on his hla return fG f t the Crusades and to have havo built church there In compliance with a. a av JV vi viso so to honor bonor his place o ot of refuge |