1. The first true intent of creating an independent state for the Dalmatian people came following the Napoleonic conquests of the region, where many ethnic Dalmatians willingly took up arms against their Austrian rulers, a gesture which Napoleon repaid by creating a puppet state for them.
2. Recognizing the potential for further unrest, the Austrian monarchs, following their retaking of the region, reorganized the Dalmatian government as a kingdom under their rule, though this action would cause large amounts of unrest among ethnic Croatians, who felt that the territory was wrongfully carved out from their lands.
3. When the first world war broke out, many Dalmatians were conflicted as to who they should side with, with many questioning their willingness to fight their ethnic cousins in Italy and France, and many Dalmatians felt sympathy for the Serbs. This would all boil over in the form of armed uprisings throughout ethnically dalmatian regions in both Austria and occupied Montenegro. This would also mark the first time when Catholic northern Dalmatians and Orthodox southern Dalmatians would fight along side one another.
4. Following the conclusion of the war, many Dalmatians desired for an independent state for themselves, and as such delegates to the league of nations would proposed these borders in 1921, though their request would be ignored in favor of recognizing Yugoslav and Italian ambitions.
5. Anger at their seemingly being ignored by the league would open the door for the rise of extremist ideologies to take root among the Dalmatian people, in particular Fascism. These seeds for extremsim would grow and blossom into an Italian backed armed uprising against the Yugoslav government in 1928. This uprising would cease with the signing of the Treaty of Trogir in 1930, in which Yugoslavia would officially recognize the independence of the state of Dalmatia, though the state itself was effectively an Italian puppet throughout it's existence.
6. Following the end of World War 2, Dalmatia, in return for it's aid to the Allies was granted ethnically Dalmatian territories from Yugoslavia and Italy, though it would soon come at the cost of Soviet forces forcibly establishing a Communist puppet state in the north of the country, leaving a fascist controlled rump state in the south.
7. Under increasing pressure from the Soviet backed north, and continued political isolation from the west, the leader of South Dalmatia would resign in 1951 and have a democratic and capitalist friendly government installed.
8. In 1959, Christian Communist rebels would storm the capital building of North Dalmatia and quickly capture it, at the end of the year and the beginning of 1960, the government would concede to their demands and a Christian dominated regime would be installed, a move which would see many of North Dalmatia's small Sunni minorities in the east flee to Yugoslavia.
9. In 1988, the ruler of North Dalmatia would be assassinated, and the emergency government would see itself overwhelmed by pro democracy uprising throughout the country, and by May of that year, they would resign from power and allow the rebels to move in and establish a democratic government.
10. In 1990, on the 181st anniversary of the establishment of Napoleonic Dalmatia, the two countries would unify together after 44 years of separation.
11. The religious make up of Dalmatia is best described as roughly 70 percent Catholic, 25 percent Orthodox, 2 percent Sunni, and 3 percent irreligious.
12. 80 percent of the country identifies as Dalmatian, 10 percent identify as Croatian, 5 percent as Italian, 2 percent Bosnian, 2 percent Montenegrin, and 1 percent Albanian.