Governorate of Dalmatia

Governorate of Dalmatia Governatorato di Dalmazia (Italian) Guvernatorat Dalmacija (Croatian)
1918–1943
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: FERT (Motto for the House of Savoy)
Anthem: Marcia Reale d'Ordinanza[a] ("Royal March of Ordinance")
The second Governorate of Dalmatia in 1941
Status	Provinces of the Kingdom of Italy
Capital	Šibenik (1918–1919) Zadar (1919–1920) Zadar (1943–1944)
Common languages	Italian Croatian
Religion	Roman Catholic
King
• 1918–1920	Victor Emmanuel III
• 1941–1943	Victor Emmanuel III
Governor
• 1918–1920	Enrico Millo
• 1941	Athos Bartolucci
• 1941–1943	Giuseppe Bastianini
• 1943	Francesco Giunta
Historical era	World War I and World War II
• First established	21 November 1918
• First disestablished	12 November 1920
• Second established	18 May 1941
• Second disestablished	10 September 1943
Area
• Total	5,242[2] km2 (2,024 sq mi)
Population
• 1941	380,100
• Density	61.6[2]/km2 (159.5/sq mi)
Currency	Italian lira
Preceded by Succeeded by 1918: Austria-Hungary 1941: Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1941: Province of Zara 1920: Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1943: Independent State of Croatia 1943: Italian Social Republic
^ Unofficial anthem was Giovinezza ("Youth").[1]

The Governorate of Dalmatia (Italian: Governatorato di Dalmazia; Croatian: Guvernatorat Dalmacija) was an administrative division of the Kingdom of Italy established in from 1918 to 1920 and from 1941 to 1943. The first Governorate of Dalmatia was established following the end of World War I, given the London Pact (1915), and was disastablished following the Treaty of Rapallo. The London Pact also promised Italy part of Dalmatia (for the presence of Dalmatian Italians). However, both the peace settlement negotiations of 1919 to 1920 and the Fourteen Points of Woodrow Wilson, who advocated self-determination, took precedence, with Italy being permitted to annex only Zadar from Dalmatia, with the rest of Dalmatia being part of Yugoslavia. Enraged Italian nationalists considered the decision to be a betrayal of the promises of the London Pact, so this outcome was denounced as a "mutilated victory".

The second Governorate of Dalmatia was established following the military conquest of Yugoslavian Dalmatia by General Vittorio Ambrosio, during World War II. It had the provisional purpose of progressively importing Italian national legislation in Dalmatia in place of the previous one, thus fully integrating it into the Kingdom of Italy. It was a territory divided into three provinces of Italy during the Fascist Italy and Italian Empire epoch. It was created as an entity in April 1941 at the start of World War II in Yugoslavia, by uniting the existing province of Zara with occupied Yugoslav territory annexed by Italy after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers and the signing of the Rome Treaties.^[3]