_Dalmatia after 1797._--After the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797, the treaty of Campo Formio gave Dalmatia to Austria. The republics of Ragusa and Poglizza retained their independence, and Ragusa grew rich by its neutrality during the earlier Napoleonic wars. By the peace of Pressburg in 1805 the country was handed over to France, but its occupation was ineffectually contested by a Russian force which seized the Bocche di Cattaro and induced the Montenegrins to render aid. Poglizza was deprived of its independence by Napoleon in 1807, Ragusa in 1808. In 1809 the French troops were withdrawn, but in the same year Dalmatia was restored to France and united to the Illyrian kingdom by the treaty of Vienna. A British naval force under Captain Hoste, after a successful engagement with a small French squadron off Lissa, occupied the islands of Curzola, Lesina and Lagosta from 1812 to 1815, and established a considerable overland trade through Dalmatia, Austria and Germany. The allied British and Austrian forces drove out the last French garrison in 1814, and in 1815 Dalmatia was finally incorporated in the Austro-Hungarian empire, with which its history has since been identified. Its subsequent tranquillity has only been disturbed by the ineffectual risings of 1869 and 1881-1882, which took place near Cattaro (q.v.). For an account of the development of Croatian nationalism among the Dalmatians, during the 19th and 20th centuries, see CROATIA-SLAVONIA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--A minute and accurate account of Dalmatian history, art (especially architecture), antiquities and topography, is given by T. G. Jackson, in _Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria_ (Oxford, 1887), (3 vols. illustrated). E. A. Freeman, _Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice_ (London, 1881), and G. Modrich, _La Dalmazia_ (Turin, 1892), describe the chief towns, their history and antiquities. Much miscellaneous information is contained in the following mainly topographical works:--P. Bauron, _Les Rives illyriennes_ (Paris, 1888); Sir A. A. Paton, _Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic_ (London, 1849); Sir J. G. Wilkinson, _Dalmatia and Montenegro_ (London, 1840); A. Fortis, _Travels into Dalmatia_ (London, 1778); and the periodicals, _Rivista Dalmatica_ (Zara, 1899, &c.), and _Annuario Dalmatico_ (Zara, 1884, &c.). The best maps are those of the Austrian General Staff and Vincenzo de Haardt's _Zemljovid Kraljevine Dalmacije_ (Zara, 1892). See also for trade, the Annual British Consular Reports; for sport, "Snaffle," _In the Land of the Bora_ (London, 1897); for Roman and pre-Roman antiquities, R. Munro, _Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dalmatia_ (Edinburgh, 1904). Besides the works mentioned above, and those by Farlatus, Makushev, Miklosich, Theiner, Shafarik, Orbini and du Cange, which are quoted under BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, the chief authority for Dalmatian history is G. Lucio (Lucius of Traù), _De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae, a gentis origine ad annum 1480_ (Amsterdam, 1666). To this edition are appended the works of the Presbyter Diocleas, Thomas of Spalato and other native chroniclers from the 12th century onwards. An Italian translation, omitting the appendix, was published at Trieste in 1892, entitled _Storia del Regno di Dalmatia e di Croazia_, and edited by Luigi Cesare. Lucio's work is singularly trustworthy and scientific. See also P. Pisani, _La Dalmatie de 1797 à 1815_ (Paris, 1893). (K. G. J.)