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 The Dalmatian man has been connected with the grapevine since centuries, he gave it his effort and love, and it returned with true wealth. Nowadays it's the same. The Illyrians ai the first inhabitants of Dalmatia knew I he grapevine, but the real development of wine-growing was linked to the Greek and their arrival on the middle part of the Adriatic coast. The cultivation of the grapevine and the production of wine developed from year to year, from one century to another ...
Wine as an original product of the Croatian Adriatic coast was searched since ever almost throughout the whole world. We can conclude from relief’s in the Diocletian's palace that the emperor Diocletian cultivated and consumed it. The Hungarian king Bela IV. and French marshal Marmont, the Austrian emperor Franz Josef from Vienna drank it as well as many other rulers. The production of wine and the cultivation of the grapevine were often the only source for the existence of the Middle-Dalmatian field laborers. The most known vineyards of this put of Dalmatia are situated on the slopes and in the hinterland of the mountains Mosor and Biokovo, or below the mountain Kozjak and on the Middle-Dalmatian islands. |
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