. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s, quae iamin vobis patior; conturbor quia per Istrire aditum iamItaliam intrare coeperunt In the seventh century Dalmatia received the dominant element of its present population, theCroats. In the ninth century we find the Croatianinfluence at its height, and the Croatian princesrecognized as Kings of Dalmatia. At the time ofThomislav there were held two councils at Spljet forthe whole of Dalmatia and Croatia. The legates ofthe Holy See, Joh
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s, quae iamin vobis patior; conturbor quia per Istrire aditum iamItaliam intrare coeperunt In the seventh century Dalmatia received the dominant element of its present population, theCroats. In the ninth century we find the Croatianinfluence at its height, and the Croatian princesrecognized as Kings of Dalmatia. At the time ofThomislav there were held two councils at Spljet forthe whole of Dalmatia and Croatia. The legates ofthe Holy See, John, Bishop of Ancona and Leo, Bishopof Praeneste, were present. Pope John X wrote aletter to Thomislav, King of the Croats and all thepeople of Dalmatia. In this he reminded the king ofthe Anglo-Saxons, to whom Gregory I sent not onlyChristianity, but also culture and education. Thecouncil met in 925 to decide the question of the pri-macy of the Sees of Nin and Spljet; to re-establish rulesof discipline, to settle administrative questions arisingfrom disputes about the boundaries of dioceses, andfinally to show the reason for using the Old Croatian. Cathedral, Trau, Dalmatia (XIII Century) language at Mass. On this occasion Bishop GrgurNinski energetically defended the right of the Croa-tians to use that language. Pope Leo VI decreed byhis Bull that the primate of Dalmatia and Croatiashould be the Archbishop of Spljet. All the decisionsof the councils were sent to Rome for See of Nin was suppressed in 928, when the See ofSpljet renounced the jurisdiction of the Patriarch ofConstantinople and submitted to the Holy See. Atthe next council, held 1059-60 at Spljet, permissionwas given to use the Greek and Latin languages atMass. The use of the old Croatian language wasoften forbidden, but never abolished. During thefollowing centuries the history of Dalmatia is closelyconnected with that of Croatia. In the course oftime, however, Venice extended her authority overDa
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