Nin (Nona),
is a coastal town in the southern part of the Nin Bay on the Zdrijac peninsula, 17 km
north of Zadar (Zara). Economy is based on farming, growing of vines, olives and
fruit, fishing and tourism.
Nin was historically
important as a center of a Catholic bishopric in the Middle Ages. In 1328 it came under
the protection of Venice and remained under the Venetian rule until 1797.
Parts of the walls of the medieval fortification system
have been preserved.
Pag (Pago)
is an island in the north-Dalmatian archipelago, with an area of 284,5 sq km. The
south-western coast of the island is low, and the north-western is steep and high. The
island's highest peak is Sveti Vid (St. Vitus, 348 m). Vine, vegetables and fruit are
grown in the valleys and fields. The area of the Lun peninsula (Tovarnele) is mostly under
olive-groves. Sheep rearing (cheese of Pag (Pago), wool) and viniculture also represent
chief occupations on the island.
At the beginning
of the 1st century, the Romans constructed in Pag (Pago) a fortification system to defend
themselves against Illyrian tribes. The main settlement in Roman times was Pagus. The
special place in economy of the island of Pag (Pago) has the salt production. Namely, the
old town of Pag have grown from a small village near salt pans through the twelfth and
thirteenth century, and almost whole economic activity of its habitants has been connected
to salt manufacturing and trade. The importance of Pag bay as the largest complex of
salt pans on the east coast of the Adriatic sea was so big that through the whole Middle
Ages they have been the cause for struggles between Zadar’s noblemen, who were the
possessors of the major part of salt pans, Paghesians, who wanted political and economical
independence and autonomy, and Venetian Republic, which had ambition to control the
whole salt production on Adriatic sea. Finally, at the beginning of the fifteenth century,
when Venetian Republic succeeded to bring under its government the whole Dalmatia, one of
the first acts was to destroy all the salt pans. Only those in Pag (Pago) bay remained in
function, partly modernized, and have become one of the most important sources of profit
for the Republic. From 1409 to 1797 Pag (Pago) was under the rule of the Venetian
Republic, afterwards shared the same destiny as the rest of Dalmatia under the Austrian
rule. In 1941, it fell under the Italian rule, afterwards occupied by the Germans. In 1945
the island was annexed to Yugoslavia and then to Croatia.
The Bridge that connected Pag (Pago) with
the mainland.
Ruins of a fortress at the southernmost
point of Pag (Pago) near the Bridge that connected Pag (Pago) with the mainland.
View of the town of Pag (Pago) at the
entrance of "Valle di Saline".
View of Paski Zaljev near the town of Pag
(Pago).
The olive-groves in the area of the Lun
peninsula (Tovarnele), Pag (Pago).
