Sunset in Sibenik - Croatia
by Paolo Signorini
Title
Sunset in Sibenik - Croatia
Artist
Paolo Signorini
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Sibenik s a historic town in Croatia. It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Sibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Sibenik-Knin county.Unlike other cities along the Adriatic coast, which were established by Greeks, Illyrians and Romans, Sibenik was founded by Slavs.Excavations of the castle of Saint Michael, have since proven that the place was inhabited long before the actual arrival of the Croats. It was mentioned for the first time under its present name in 1066 in a Charter of the Croatian King Petar KreSimir IV and, for a period of time, it was a seat of this Croatian King. For that reason, Sibenik is also called Kresimirov grad (Kresimirās city). It is the oldest native Croatian town on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.Between the 11th and 12th centuries, Sibenik was tossed back and forth among Venice, Byzantium, Hungary and the Kingdom of Bosnia. It was conquered by the Republic of Venice in 1116,who held it until 1124, when they briefly lost it to the Byzantine Empire, and then held it again until 1133 when it was retaken by the Kingdom of Hungary. It would change hands amongst the aforementioned states several more times until 1180.The city, like the rest of Dalmatia, resisted the Venetians in a three-year war that was resolved in their favor in 1412.The Ottoman Empire started to threaten Sibenik, as part of their struggle against Venice, at the end of the 15th century but they never succeeded in conquering it. In the 16th century, St. Nicholas Fortress was built and, by the 17th century, its fortifications were improved again by the fortresses of St. John (Tanaja) and Subicevac (Barone).The fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797 brought Sibenik under the authority of the Habsburg Monarchy.During the Croatian War of Independence (1991ā1995), Sibenik was heavily attacked by the Yugoslav National Army and Serbian paramilitary troops.Although under-armed, the nascent Croatian army and the people of Sibenik managed to defend the city. The battle lasted for six days (September 16ā22), often referred to as the āSeptember battleā. The bombings damaged numerous buildings and monuments, including the dome of the Cathedral of St. James and the 1870-built theatre building.In an August 1995 military operation, Croatian Army defeated the Serb forces and freed the occupied areas,which created the basic conditions for its post-war recovery and allowed the region to continue to develop as the centre of Sibenik-Knin county. Architecturally, the damaged parts of the city have been fully reconstructed.
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