Parliament of Dalmatia
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The Diet of Dalmatia was the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Dalmatia
Kingdom of Dalmatia
The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.-History:...

 within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was founded in 1861 in Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

 and was eventually dissolved in the early 1900s.

The Autonomists (pro-Italian) held their position as the parliamentary majority from the founding of the Dalmatian diet until 1870, when the People's Party (Croatian) won the parliamentary elections that year. Croatian
Croatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

 became the official language of the diet in 1883.

The Premises

Under the constitutional reforms promoted by the Emperor Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph is an English former professional association football player. He played for Wimbledon, Brentford, Reading, Bristol Rovers, Aldershot, Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Barnet and Gillingham between 1980 and 1992.His younger brother is Roger Joseph....

 with the imperial Decret dated 20 October 1860, the Empire was in some way "federalization", following the majority opinion of the Board Empire: according to these determinations every province of the kingdom was reconstituted - or newly-created - a proper diet, which had been conferred many legislative and judicial powers.

In Croatia, the imperial law, accompanied by the first convocation of the local diet, was warmly welcomed, and since its first meeting with union representatives allege to Dalmatia: an old question raised periodically in the face of the imperial authorities.

An imperial autograph on 5 December in Vienna created a 'courtly department (ministry) for Croatia-Slavonia, introduced the Croatian language in the administration of these territories and declared that accommodate the demands of rebuilding the ancient tiara-Slavonia-Croatian Dalmatian, postponing a final decision, however, when Dalmatia, still lacking provincial assembly, was able to express their political will. They also agreed that a political representation of Dalmatia was sent to Zagreb to discuss the issue at a conference chaired by the Ban of Croatia, the highest political authority in the territory of Croatia-Slavonia.

The autograph imperial produced various representations in Dalmatian cities: it was particularly the city of Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

 congregation - led by Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

 - to be distinguished by the bitterness of the protests, sending an appeal to Francis Joseph to convene the provincial assembly of Dalmatia before taking no decision on the constitutional arrangements of the province within the Empire. In the report attached to the appeal, Bajamonti wrote a few sentences later become famous: "The Dalmatian should be even Slavic, will never Croatian election."

Most of the Dalmatian municipalities on the basis of Split, refused to send their representatives in Zagreb, deciding instead to form a delegation that went to Vienna to plead the claims no annexation to Croatia.

Meanwhile, the imperial court began to fear that the granting of overly broad powers to the diets would facilitate the unleashing of domestic centrifugal forces, reducing the authority of the emperor.

In February 1861 were held several meetings of the Council of Ministers of Austria, during which they discussed at length the problem of Dalmatia and his possible meeting with Croatia: Ivan Mažuranić, chairman of the department courtly for Croatia-Slavonia, pleaded passionately cause, supported by Foreign Minister Bernhard von Rechberg, who considered the union needed to counter an alleged "Italian threat" against the Dalmatian was necessary - told Rechberg - strengthening the Slavic element in Dalmatia, loyal to Austria, Confronting secessionist dreams of a very influential Italian minority. The positions of the Dalmatian separatists were supported by liberal politicians instead of German, who managed to persuade the emperor to postpone the decision, setting up a provincial assembly Dalmatian that would later negotiate with Croatian representatives on the possibility of unification.

The creation of the Diet

Recommended by the German-speaking Liberals, Francis Joseph issued a license by February 26, 1861 which created an Imperial Parliament (composed of the House and Senate) with extensive legislative powers, drastically reducing the powers previously planned for the provincial assembly. Within this patent, 15 were approved statutes of the reconstituted provincial assembly, with its Sabor regulations, which provided for an electoral system that gave voting rights only to those who were in possession of even a minimal fee.

The electoral system was based on four curiae, representing various social bodies:
  • The high census (which ten representatives elected in Dalmatia)
  • The cities (eight representatives)
  • The chambers of commerce (three representatives)
  • The rural municipalities (twenty representatives)


Apart from these, for the Kingdom of Dalmatia was envisaged that Members were entitled to the Archbishop of Zadar and Vladika (Metropolitan) Orthodox for Dalmatia, Istria and Albania pro tempore. The seat of the Diet was Zara.

This system gives the bourgeois and aristocratic classes and the urban population than rural, if the rest of the empire strengthened the political clout of the German group, in the eastern Adriatic (Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia) favor speaking populations and Italian culture, traditionally the richest and most concentrated in cities on the coast.

The first diet of 1861

Based on these assumptions, between 24 and 30 March 1861 held the first elections
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1861
Parliamentary elections were held in Kingdom of Dalmatia for the newly formed parliament in 1861.-Results:-Autonomist Party:From Zadar* Vittorio Bioni* Cosimo de Begna Possedaria* Vincenzo Duplancich...

 for the provincial assembly of Dalmatia.

These flagrant sanctioned victory of the liberal movement Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

 (autonomy) in training adverse Croatian People's Party
People's Party (Kingdom of Dalmatia)
People's Party was a political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia. It was founded in 1861 after the failure of Bach's absolutism, as branch of the People's Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia...

 (Narodna stranka) also called "annexation" or "national". The separatists won 29 seats out of 41.
Party Seats
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

29
People's Party 12
Total 41

Elected representatives

Autonomist Party

From Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

  • Vittorio Bioni
  • Cosimo de Begna Possedaria
  • Vincenzo Duplancich
  • Antonio Smirich (from 1863: Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli)
  • Antonio Bajamonti
    Antonio Bajamonti
    Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

  • Spiro Petrović
  • Natale Filippi
  • Giacomo Ghiglianovich
  • Francesco Borreli

From Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

  • Leonardo Dudan
  • Giorgio Giovannizio
  • Luigi Lapenna
  • Vincenzo degli Alberti

From Šibenik
Šibenik
Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, with population of 51,553 . It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea...

  • Antonio Galvani

From Makarska
Makarska
Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split and northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County....

  • Giacomo Vucovich

From Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

  • Giovanni Radmilli
  • Luigi Serragli

From Korcula
Korcula
Korčula is an island in the Adriatic Sea, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. The island has an area of ; long and on average wide — and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 16,182 inhabitants make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk...

  • Giovanni Smerchinich

From Hvar
Hvar
- Climate :The climate of Hvar is characterized by mild winters and warm summers. The yearly average air temperature is , 686 mm of precipitation fall on the town of Hvar on average every year and the town has a total of 2800 sunshine hours per year. For comparison Hvar has an average of 7.7...

  • Girolamo Macchiedo
  • Giovanni Macchiedo
  • Girolamo Vusio

From Skradin
Skradin
Skradin is a small town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia it has a population about 3,986 . It is located near the Krka river and at the entrance to the Krka National Park, from Šibenik and from Split...

  • Simeone Bujas
  • Giovanni Marasović

From Drnis
Drniš
Drniš is a town in Croatia, located in inland Dalmatia at halfway between Šibenik and Knin. Its municipality population is 8,595 , with 3,332 in the town itself and the rest in two dozen surrounding villages...

  • Melchiorre Difnico

From Trogir
Trogir
Trogir is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia, with a population of 12,995 and a total municipality population of 13,322 . The historic city of Trogir is situated on a small island between the Croatian mainland and the island of Čiovo...

  • Antonio Radman
  • Antonio Fanfogna

From Sinj
Sinj
Sinj is a town in the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The town itself has a population of 11,448, while the population of the administrative municipality which includes surrounding villages is 24,832 ....

  • Josip Dešković
  • Anton Buljan

From Imotski
Imotski
Imotski , is a small town situated on the northern side of Biokovo massif, Dalmatian hinterland, Croatia. The town was first mentioned as Imotski for the first time in the 10th century and it was held by the Turks from the fall of Bosnia until 1717 when it was captured by the Venetians. The town...

  • Niccolò Mirossevich


People's Party

From Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

  • Miho Klaic
    Miho Klaić
    Miho Klaić was a Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia.He obtained a PhD in architecture in Padua, Italy. He was a member of the National Party and was elected as member of the Diet of Dalmatia in the National Committee...

  • Marino Giorni

From Kotor
Kotor
Kotor is a coastal city in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Gulf of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative center of the municipality....

  • Josip Gjurović (from 1863 Kosta Vojnović)
  • Bernardo Verona (from 1863 Josip Banović-Damianović)

From Benkovac
Benkovac
Benkovac is a town and municipality in the interior of Zadar County, Croatia.- Geography :Benkovac is located where the plain of Ravni Kotari and the karstic plateau of Bukovica meet, 20 km from the town of Biograd na Moru and 30 km from Zadar. The Zagreb-Split motorway and Zadar-Knin...

  • Petar Radulović

From Drnis
Drniš
Drniš is a town in Croatia, located in inland Dalmatia at halfway between Šibenik and Knin. Its municipality population is 8,595 , with 3,332 in the town itself and the rest in two dozen surrounding villages...

  • Pane Sablić
  • Krsto Kulišić

From Vrgorac
Vrgorac
Vrgorac is a town in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County.The total population of Vrgorac is 6,501 , in the following settlements:* Banja, population 214* Dragljane, population 47* Draževitići, population 204* Duge Njive, population 106...

  • Miho Pavlinović

From Cavtat
Cavtat
Cavtat ) is a town in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. It is on the Adriatic seacoast 15 km south of Dubrovnik and is the centre of the Konavle municipality.-History:...

  • Djure Pulić

From Ston
Ston
Ston is a village and municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia, located at the south of isthmus of the Pelješac peninsula. The town of Ston is the center of the Ston municipality.- Demographics :...

  • Krsto Jerković

From Budva
Budva
Budva is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has around 15,000 inhabitants, and it is the centre of municipality...

  • Luka Tripcović
  • Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
    Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
    Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša , was a Serbian-Montenegrin writer and politician. He is famous for his unique short stories, generally ranked among the masterpieces of Serbian literature in its day...



President of the Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party)

In this first election had not yet radicalized the identification between the Autonomist Party and the Party of the People respectively with the Italians and Croats (or more generally the Slavs of Dalmatia): the idea of Dalmatian Nation with the Niccolo Tommaseo
Niccolò Tommaseo
Niccolò Tommaseo was an Italian Dalmatian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes , of a dictionary of synonyms and other works...

 ideas - that is, a nation-bridge between Slavia and Italy - had breached even among the Dalmatian ethnic Slavs, so that among some members are elected Serb separatists (Petrović) or bilingual, with Croatian mother language (Buljan, Bujas, Marassovich and Mirossevich). At the same time, among annexationists all know the Italian language and some (Days and Verona) were also ethnically Italian: the chronicles of the time even reported that some annexationists members were derided for their inability to speak in Croatian.

On 18 April 1861, the Diet passed a motion submitted by Baiamonti and Galvani and to reject the request for union Dalmatian for Croatia and Slavonia. Only two were the dissenting votes.

Diet of 1864

Party Seats
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

32
People's Party 9
Total 41

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1864
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1864
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1864. The Autonomists claimed victory for the second time.-Results:...

:

Girolamo Alesani (1864–1866), Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria, Vittorio Bioni, Orsatto Bonda, Giuseppe Descovich (1866–1867), Melchiorre Difnico, Pietro Doimi, Stefano Doimi, Giovanni Fanfogna, Natale Filippi (1866–1867), Antonio Galvani, Giacomo Ghiglianovich (1866–1867), Nicola Lallich, Francesco Lanza, Luigi Lapenna (1864–1866), Giovanni Battista Macchiedo(or Machiedo), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Luigi Mery, Simeone Michieli Vitturi, Andrea Nicolich, Spiridione Petrovich, Giuseppe Piperata, Valerio Ponte, Giovanni Radmilli, Simeone Rossignoli, Luigi Serragli, Antonio Stermich, Giacomo Vucovich, Vincenzo Vuletich, Giovanni Zaffron, Francesco Zanchi.

President of Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party).

Diet of 1867

Partito Seats
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

26
People's Party 15
Total 41

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1867
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1867
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1867. The Autonomists claimed victory for the third straight time, while the opposition People's Party narrowed the gap. The results were as follows:...

:
Girolamo Alesani (1869–1870), Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria, Vittorio Bioni, Agostino Cindro, Giuseppe Descovich (1867–1868), Stefano Doimi (1867–1869), Giovanni Fanfogna, Gaetano Frari, Luigi Frari
Luigi Frari
Luigi Frari was the Chief Municipal Physician and the mayor and political and social activist of Šibenik, Dalmatia. His special political and social efforts were related to improving the infrastructure and modernizing the city of Šibenik, as well as speaking in favor of preservation of Diocese of...

, Giacomo Ghiglianovich, Giorgio Giovannizio, Stefano Knezevich (Croatian People's Party), Luigi Lapenna, Enrico Matcovich, Pietro Doimo Maupas, Andrea Nicolich, Spiridione Petrovich, Giuseppe Piperata, Antonio Radman, Antonio Rolli, Simeone de Rossignoli, Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli, Luigi Serragli, Giacomo Vucovich, Vincenzo Vuletich, Giovanni Zaffron.

President of Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party).

Diet of 1870

Party Seats
People's Party 25
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

16
Total 41


President of the Diet: Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša , was a Serbian-Montenegrin writer and politician. He is famous for his unique short stories, generally ranked among the masterpieces of Serbian literature in its day...

 (People's Party).

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1870
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1870
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1870.-Results:...

:

Vincenzo Alesani, Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria (1870–1873), Natale Filippi (1870–1873), Gaetano Frari, Matteo Gligo, Stefano Knezevich, Andrea Krussevich (1872–1873 e 1875-1876), Francesco Lanza (1870–1874), Luigi Lapenna (1872–1873), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Luigi Mery, Francesco Milcovich (1874–1876), Giuseppe Mladineo (1871–1874), Luigi Nutrizio (1875–1876), Giuseppe Piperata (1871–1873), Valerio Ponte (1870-1870), Giuseppe Radman (1874–1876), Simeone Rossignoli (1874–1876), Niccolò Trigari (1874–1876), Vincenzo Vuletich (1871–1876).

For the first time the People's Party won elections in Dalmatia. The Croat majority did not recognize the validity of the election of many autonomies representatives, and this involves a series of resignations and replacements, plus a heavy indoor climate. The diets had the power within the Empire decisions on schools, therefore this time they closed all Italian schools in Dalmatia, with the exception of those Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

. It was during these years that the head of the National Party from Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

 Miho Klaic
Miho Klaić
Miho Klaić was a Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia.He obtained a PhD in architecture in Padua, Italy. He was a member of the National Party and was elected as member of the Diet of Dalmatia in the National Committee...

, gave a speech to the Diet, here will be more in Dalmatia Dalmatian Italians
Dalmatian Italians
Dalmatian Italians are a mostly historical Italian national minority in the region of Dalmatia, part of the Republics of Croatia and Montenegro.-Characteristics:...

. This statement already been and will be one of refrain legacies of Dalmatian Croats, as to be contained in various publications, paradoxically, often written in Italian. In Dalmatia, there is no other nationality you may be out of the Croatian-Slavonic or Serbs. (...) So some Dalmatians wrongly believe themselves Italians, they are not Italians than culture. (...) To this end for them "(Dalmatia) 'should be all Slavic.

Diet of 1876

Party Seats
People's Party 30
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

11
Total 41

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1876
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1876
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1876. The People's Party won with a record-largest majority of 30 seats in the 41 seat assembly. During the course of the government's mandate, Serb members of the People's Party formed their own Serb Party.-Results:...

:

Pietro Abelich, Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

, Cosimo de Begna Possedaria (1878–1880), Giovanni Botteri, Gustavo Ivanich, Stefano Knezevich, Pietro Doimo Maupas, Cesare Pellegrini Danieli, Giovanni Smerchinich, Niccolò Trigari.

President: Đorđe Vojnović (People's Party, after 1879 Serb Party).

Diet of 1883

Party Seats
Croatian National Party 26
Serbian Party 8
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

7
Total 41


Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1883
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1883
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1883.-Results:...

:

Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

 (1888), Gustavo Ivanich (1883–1885), Michele Kapovich (1883-1889), Pietro Doimo Maupas, Giuseppe Messa, Giuseppe Pezzi, Antonio Radman (1885–1886), Luigi Serragli (1883–1885), Leopoldo Stermich (?), Niccolò Trigari.

President: Đorđe Vojnović (Serb Party),
Vice president: Michele Kapovich  (Autonomist Party).

For the first time in elections for the renewal of the Diet representatives Dalmatian Slavs are divided. The People's Party becomes the Croatian National Party, as he presents for the first cultured on a Serbian Party, born a few years before. This party has a policy very flexible: first allied with the Croats, following up with a lot of Autonomist in local elections, and was fiercely attacked by Croat nationalists: for example what happened to Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

, which various ethnic-linguistic Serbs believed than Dubrovnik was a Serbian city. From this position, the party is closer to the Croatian Serbs, especially as take off the "Yugoslavian Movement", which claimed to unite all the Slavic peoples. The difficulty to distinguish at this stage, the autonomous Serb deputies in the list of names shown above is reflected, in part because contemporary documents often bear the words of names in Latinized form (The name is Italian, and last name - when is - ending in "-ch"): with a question mark indicates those deputies will probably be identified as Serbs.

Diet of 1889

Party Seats
Croats National Party 26
Serbian Party 9
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

6
Total 41

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1889
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1889
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1889.-Results:...

:

Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti
Antonio Bajamonti was a Dalmatian politician. Bajamonti's parents were Giuseppe Bajamonti and Helena Candido of Šibenik. He was one of the most successful mayors of Split...

 (end to 1891), Lorenzo Benevenia, Pietro Doimo Maupas (end to 1891), Baldassarre Podich, Ercolano Salvi (dal 1891), Antonio Smirich, Niccolò Trigari, Niccolò de' Vidovich.

President: Đorđe Vojnović (Serb Party).

Diet of 1895

Party Seats
People's Party 23
Serbian Party 9
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

6
Party of Rights 3
Total 41

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1895
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1895
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1895.-Results:...

:

Roberto Ghiglianovich, Giovanni Lubin, Ercolano Salvi, Stefano Smerchinich, Niccolò Trigari, Luigi Ziliotto

President: Miho Klaić (People's Party, until 1896); Gajo Bulat (People's Party, from 1896 to 1901).

Diet of 1901

Party Seats
People's Party 18
Party of Rights 9
Serbian Party 6
Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

6
Pure Party of Rights 2
Total 41

lected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1901
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1901
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1901.-Results:...

:

Roberto Ghiglianovich, Natale Krekich, Luigi Pini (dal 1903), Ercolano Salvi, Stefano Smerchinich, Niccolò Trigari (ens to 1902), Luigi Ziliotto.

President: Vicko Ivčević (People's Party, from 1905 Croat Party).

Diet of 1908

Party Seats
Croatian Party 22
Party of Rights 8
Serbian Party 7
Autonomist Party 6
Total 43

Elected for Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

, in the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1908
Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1908
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1908. They were the last held for the Dalmatian parliament in Zadar, as World War I broke out before the end of the government's mandate in 1915...

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Roberto Ghiglianovich, Natale Krekich, Luigi Pini (1910–1918), Ercolano Salvi, Stefano Smerchinich, Luigi Ziliotto.

President: Vicko Ivčević (Croat Party)

Presidents of the Diet

The 2nd and 3rd Presidents were Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

, while the 1st and latter three were Croats
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

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  • Špiro Petrović (1861–1870) - Autonomist Party
    Autonomist Party
    The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

  • Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
    Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
    Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša , was a Serbian-Montenegrin writer and politician. He is famous for his unique short stories, generally ranked among the masterpieces of Serbian literature in its day...

     (1870–1876) - People's Party
  • Đorđe Vojnović (1877–1895) - People's Party (up to 1879), later Serbian People's Party
  • Miho Klaic
    Miho Klaić
    Miho Klaić was a Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia.He obtained a PhD in architecture in Padua, Italy. He was a member of the National Party and was elected as member of the Diet of Dalmatia in the National Committee...

     (1896) - People's Party
  • Gajo Bulat
    Gajo Bulat
    Gajo F. Bulat was a Croatian lawyer who served as the Mayor of Split and as a member of the Diet of Dalmatia and the Vienna Imperial Council....

     (1896–1900) - People's Party
  • Vicko Ivčević (1900–1918) - People's Party, later Croatian Party

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