On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:50:44 GMT, "tile" wrote:
>we are talking about facts. and not about opinions.
>I think nobody will ever show that the majority of people living in istria
>was not Venetian dialect speaking..
>and so were most of the people living in the major towns of Dalmatia. we are
>talking for instance of
>Fiume
>Spalato
>Zara
>Ragusa..
>Many Coratian names were invented. they simply did not exist before the end
>of the war.
>
Boy, that would sure surprise my ggg+ parents who lived high in the
Velebits on the Dalmatian coast above Tribanj-Kruscica, and then (and
now) in Zara (now Zadar) - the ones with Croatian surnames, the names
which existed centuries before WW1 and WW2, and which are reflected in
old church records dating back to at least the 1700s..
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