Dalmatian Italians

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Dalmatian Italians (Italian: dalmati italiani; Croatian: Dalmatinski Talijani) are the historical Italian national minority living in the region of Dalmatia, now part of Croatia and Montenegro. Historically, Italian language-speaking Dalmatians accounted for 12.5% of population in 1865, 5.8% in 1880, and to 2.8% in 1910, suffering from a constant trend of decreasing presence, due to various reasons. Before 1859, Italian was the language of administration, education, the press, and the Austrian navy. People who wished to acquire higher social standing and separate from the Slav peasantry became Italians. In the years after 1866, Italians lost their privileges in Austria-Hungary, their assimilation of the Slavs came to an end, and they found themselves under growing pressure by other rising nations. With the rising Slav tide after 1890, italianized Slavs reverted to being Croats. All but one of the 82 urban communities got Slav government majority by 1910. Austrian rulers found use of the...

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