Facts in brief:
Located on an inlet of the Adriatic; was independent city of Serbia 1186-1271; held by Venice & Hungary, then under Venetian control from
1420; Austrian 1797-1918; after Slavic rebellion in 1918, passed to Yugoslavia.
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