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Years: 1241 - 1241
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The Bulgarian troops proceed to pass through Dalmatia, taking control of Kotor and …
…Kotor.
The Mongols briefly hold Kotor and …
…Trogir in 1241.
Radic Crnojević, a lord of the Djurasevic-Crnojević clan who maintains a domain in Upper Zeta, rebels at the end of April 1396 against the rule of the Balšićs.
Radic and his brother Dobrivoje take the Grbalj and lay siege to Kotor.
Djurdje has gained the disfavor of the Orthodox Serb commoners, who support the takeover of the excessively religious Orthodox Crnojevićs.
Gaining the support of the Pastrovic clan, they move to battle Djurdje himself in May, but he completely defeats the Crnojevićs and kills Radič, managing to acquire a part of the Crnojević domain.
Soon a new enemy arises at the west; Bosnian nobleman Sandalj Hranic Kosaka seizes large parts of land quickly and conquers Budva and Kotor, making a deal with the Pastrovics, and managing to win the protection of the Venetians, who proclaim him the legitimate ruler of Budva and Zeta itself.
The Djurasevic subgroup of the Crnojevics comes to prominence in Upper Zeta, though they make an agreement and join Djuradj, seeing a common enemy in Duke Sandalj.
They aid him in the struggle against Sandalj, taking the first fronts by retaking all the lands from Budva to Spic, as well as the Churchland of Saint Miholj in the Bay of Kotor, the Serbian Orthodox religious center in Zeta.
Ladislas of Naples, a claimant to the throne of Hungary, had sold Venice his rights to Dalmatia in 1409; by 1420, Venice controls virtually all of Dalmatia except Dubrovnik.
The Dalmatian port city of Kotor/Cattaro comes under Venetian control in 1420.
Venice also subjects …
The Venetians under Morosini seize from the Ottoman Turks parts of Dalmatia and ...
...much of Dalmatia, including the harbor of Cattaro (Kotor).
The Cattaro area (now called Bay of Kotor) and its environs had been occupied in 1813 by Montenegrin forces, which hold it until 1814, when the appearance of an Austrian force causes the Prince of Montenegro to turn over the territory to Austrian administration on June 11.
The British withdraw from the occupied Dalmatian islands in July 1815, following the Battle of Waterloo.
“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
—Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral ... (2004)
