Drawing on the new ways of reading and studying ancient and early medieval sources, this book explores the appearance of the Croat identity in early medieval Dalmatia.
The Italians of Dalmatia Monzali, Luciano; Evans, Shanti
The Italians of Dalmatia,
c2009, 20090926, 2009, 2009-01-01
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Using little-known Italian, Austrian, and Dalmatian sources, Monzali explores the political history of Dalmatia between 1848 and 1915, with a focus on the Italian minority, on Austrian-Italian ...relations and on the foreign policy of the Italian state towards the region and its peoples.
This book presents interdisciplinary research carried out on the Roman sites of pottery workshops active within the coastal area of the province of Dalmatia as well as on material recovered during ...the excavations.
Zdravstvo i liječnici koji su djelovali u Dubrovniku u posljedna dva stoljeća, nakon što je Napoleonova armija srušila Dubrovačku Republiku, manje su do sada privlačili pozornost medikohistoričara. U ...ovom su članku na temelju podataka iz onodobnih časopisa i novina te privatnih arhiva članova obitelji rekonstruirani životi i djelovanje dvojice dubrovačkih liječnika, oca i sina, Balda i Ante Bibice koji su živjeli potkraj 19. i u prvoj polovici 20. stoljeća. Baldo Bibica medicinu je završio u Beču i čitavog je života bio općinski liječnik, najprije u mjestima u okolici Dubrovnika, a od 1903. u Gružu. Ante Bibica studirao je medicinu u Gracu i Zagrebu i bio prvi Dubrovčanin koji je diplomu liječnika dobio na Medicinskom fakultetu zagrebačkog Sveučilišta. Specijalizirao je dermatovenerologiju u Beču i radio kao specijalist u Dubrovniku. Obojica su bili članovi liječničkih udruženja (na lokalnoj i na nacionalnoj razini), a bili su utjecajni i u društvenom životu grada.
Medicine and physicians in Dubrovnik during the last two centuries, i.e. in the period after the dissolution of the Republic of Dubrovnik by Napoleon’s Army, have attracted less interest among medical historians. In this paper, the lives and medical careers of two physicians from Dubrovnik, father and son, Baldo and Ante Bibica, have been reconstructed from the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twen-tieth century by searching through the contemporary medical journals and news-papers as well as private archives of the members of family Bibica. Baldo Bibica graduated medicine in Vienna and spent the whole professional life as a municipal physician, at first, in the places in the vicinity of Dubrovnik and from 1903 in Gruž. Ante Bibica studied medicine in Graz and in Zagreb to become the first person from Dubrovnik promoted at the School of Medicine, Zagreb University. He specialized in dermatovenerology in Vienna and worked, as a specialist, in Dubrovnik. They both were active in the professional medical societies (at local and national levels) and were influential in the social life in Dubrovnik.
The 11 m sediment core of karstic Lake Vrana located at the Dalmatian coast of Eastern Adriatic (Croatia) was investigated through the analyses of diatoms. The diatoms exhibited six marked changes in ...Diatom Zones (DZ) with included water/sediment interface, as the record of environmental changes detected by marine and other terrestrial palaeoclimate records. The diatoms recorded at the deepest sediments were interpreted to represent Pleistocene/Holocene transition. The dated Holocene history is top 810 cm core section, ca. 8.1 cal kyr BP to the present. The first zone record (1101-1050 cm) was interpreted as alkaline, oligo-mesotrophic, oxic lentic ecosystem of the karstic flooding plain based on the dominance of Epithemia adnata. Enhanced bioproductivity of the shallow and unstable environment was noticed in the second diatom zone (1050-815 cm), which was interpreted as the beginning of the Holocene and it was divided into 4 subzones because of rapid environmental fluctuations. A warmer period of temperate climate with a pluvial phase initiated development of the oligo-β mesosaprobic shallow lake in the early Holocene. The expansion of the macrophytes and higher cyanobacteria production that caused acidification and oxygen depletion at the lake bottom was determined in the mid-Holocene (810-713 cm; 8.1–7.1 cal kyr BP). Mid-Holocene (8.1–4.7 cal kyr BP) is marked by oligohalobic freshwater Epithemia argus characteristic for alkaline water. High cyanobacteria production was determined as a consequence of algal production that induced anoxic conditions in the lake bottom sediments from the warmer period till today. The initial marine influx through the permeable karst underground was observed in the sediment record from ca. 5 cal kyr BP. The discovered marine influence on the lake indicating brackish water conditions related to the Holocene sea-level high stand. The sea intrusion had different intensities through time and is still observed today in the seasonal fluctuation of lake water salinity. The Late Holocene (2.7 cal kyr BP to the present) sediment record is characterized with the strongest marine influxes and highest biodiversity of the β mesosaprobic lake. Major changes in the water/sediment interface of very shallow karstic lake were caused by anthropogenic agricultural activity in Vrana. Diatom compositions of Lake Vrana indicate that they are sensitive to both paleoclimatic changes, freshwater influx and sea level rise (marine intrusion through permeable karst).
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of ...archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some neighbouring sites. This culture had great influence along the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland and produced a significant number of these vessels. Rhyta, which other Neolithic cultures also made, were dispersed throughout a vast area of southeast Europe, from Greece to the Alps. This book is an in-depth study of that mysterious, prehistoric archaeological artifact which, due to its antiquity, structure and symbolism, has become a kind of universal proto-matrix for all relevant mythological and spiritual structures of the Mediterranean zone of later, historic times.
The fourteenth to seventeenth century seismicity of southern Dalmatia (Croatia) and coastal Montenegro deserved to be fully reappraised because of the ascertained imperfect knowledge offered by ...modern seismological studies and of the awareness of the smokescreen effect due to the large 6 April 1667 M 6.4 earthquake that impacted exactly the area of study. The investigation consisted of (i) a reconsideration of earthquake records made available by previous studies and (ii) a systematic analysis of historical sources contemporary to the earthquakes, especially those not yet taken into account in seismological studies. The 168 contemporary and independent records collected cast a different light on more than 300 years of seismicity of this area. Records are reckoned to be unevenly distributed among the 39 studied earthquakes, out of which 15 still rely upon a single testimony. Each record has been reevaluated with respect to its content and attributed a level of reliability, which for those reporting other 14 events was so low to prevent us from confirming their real occurrence. Completely unreliable records have been identified and discussed, to conclude that they are at the root of five fake earthquakes. Altogether, 34 intensity values in EMS-98 were assessed related to 15 moderate and five damaging earthquakes. Existing and newly obtained data contributed to putting the pre-1667 seismicity of southern Dalmatia and coastal Montenegro into a substantially different perspective.
There are four theories about the origin of syphilis, of which the mostly represented one is the Columbian theory. This theory suggests that syphilis was brought into Europe in 1493 ad by the ship ...from Caribbean islands.
The aim of this study is to test all theories on a sample of 403 skeletons: 135 from prehistory, 134 from antique, and 134 from medieval period and new age from the Dalmatia (Croatia).
All skeletons were examined using standard anthropological methods. Paleopathological analysis was performed on each skeleton as well as additional radiographic method on one isolated skeleton.
Paleopathological changes on skeletal remains connected with treponematosis.
Paleopathological analysis revealed one skeleton from the antique period (second to 6th century ad) that exhibited skeletal markers similar to those described in one clinical case in which congenital syphilis was confirmed by a Wasserman reaction. Skeletal remains of this person were examined macroscopically and radiographically, and the differential diagnostics eliminated other considered pathologies as well as trauma.
The finding of skeletal markers of syphilis on a skeleton from the antique supports the theory of pre‐Columbian syphilis origin. Anteric I, Basic Z, Vilovic K, Kolic K, and Andjelinovic S. Which theory for the origin of syphilis is true? J Sex Med 2014;11:3112–3118.
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