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Why Croatian (those who lives in Dalmatia) deny their Illyrian ancestry? They can’t do it, Illyrian populated Dalmatia already in 1100/1200 BC, during the Roman Empire occupation of Dalmatia the Illyrian Dalmatian got Romanized, so they divided from the rest of Southern Illyrian like Albanian, they started speaking a language derived from Latin, the Dalmatian. Slavs and Avars arrived in the Balkan around 600/650 AD they looted the Illyrian Romanized cities in the Cost of Dalmatia but they didn’t occupy them, they just occupy the outback. They were part of the Croatian Kingdom but they always supported us Venetian when we start to navigate and trade there. Cities like Zara, Ragusa, Spalato were full of Illyrian Romanized. We conquered Zara twice and helped them, also Ragusa but in 1358 we lost it, in 1382 the Illyrian of Ragusa founded the Republic of Ragusa, an Illyrian country, it lasted until 1808 and they used to speak the Dalmatian language. The rest of Dalmatia was sell to us from Hungarian in 1409 and we keep it until 1797. The facts really change with the Austrian-Hungarian domination on the XIX century with the Slavization of Dalmatia and Istria ofc also Trieste and Gorizia territories, it continued in Dalmatian territories also during Yugoslavian Kingdom and after in Istria too with Tito’s era.
So yeah why deny all of that because of just less than 200 years of Slavization?
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