Show LAND OF RACIAL TEMPESTS dalmatia has been an unquiet spot az 0 in all the year years of her tragic history e it dalmatia elongated so that it Is 13 jt nowhere more than 35 miles wide tap 1 ering down to but a mile at cattaro t has been swept sept by continuous racial tempests for the last eight centuries croats choats and serbians Serb Ser ians blans constitute the 0 slavic element in dalmatia Dal matla speaking the same language but employing two alphabets the serbs gerbs nse use the russian ir and the croats choats the latin letters and alphabet Y the latin influence Is more alent in the cities the story of 0 dalfe matla ro atia being the reason in the middle ages the dalmatians Dalmat ians were a people without the consciousness of 0 a country during the slav influx into illyria the invaders encountered little opposition except in tho the leiport towns j the latin element in the cities resist ed tho the migration and thus engendered e the strife for supremacy which per fists to this day much of the early dalmatian rivalry was economic the tradesmen and i farmers naturally wishing to exchange their goods with mith the hungarians Hung arians the maritime cities preferred to do busl t nee ness with mith nenice which controlled the adriatic Aar latic g |