The Importance of Accurate Terminology in Understanding Dalmatian and Adriatic Population History and the Formation of the Croatian Nation
The history of the eastern Adriatic—particularly Dalmatia and the inland regions stretching toward Slavonia—has long suffered from overly simplified ethnic labels. Among the most persistent is the broad and politically charged use of the term “Slavs” to describe populations that, in reality, represented a complex tapestry of Adriatic-Aegean-Ionian, Italo-Hellenic, and eastern Aegean-Cypriot-Anatolian and Jewish-Levantine diasporic […]