Show LAND OF RACIAL TEMPESTS dalmatia has ben been an unquiet spot in all the years of her tragic history dalmatia elongated so that it li 19 rioN nowhere here more than 33 35 miles wide tapering down to but a mile at cattaro has been swept by continuous racial tempests for the last eight centuries croats choats and Ser serbians Serb ians blans constitute the slavic SI ivic element in dalmatia Dal matla speaking the same language but employing two alphil alphabet bet t tho the serbs gerbs use ue the russian ond the croats choats the latin letters and alp alpha baneL tiet the latin influence Is more prevalent in the cities the story of 0 do dal matla being the reason in the middle ages the dalmatians Dalmat ians were people without the consciousness of 0 a country during the slav influx into illyria the invaders encountered little opposition except in the seaport towns the latin element in the cities resisted the migration and thus engendered the strife for supremacy which persists to this day I 1 much of 0 the early dalmatian rivalry was as economic the tradesmen and farmers naturally wishing to exchange their goods with the hungarians Hung arians the maritime cities preferred to do bustnes with venice which controlled the adriatic |