An Italian Army eventually took Istria, started to annex the Adriatic islands one by one, and even landed in Zadar.

In the poem the narrator-the poet himself-describes his journey across Adriatic islands and recounts events that he and his co-travellers experienced along the path.

At the time of his death he was attached to the signals section of a Long Range Desert Group patrol based in the Adriatic islands.

Much of the population of the coastal regions of Croatia and the Adriatic islands has origins in Bosnia.

In 1978, the Adriatic island of Vir was selected as a location for a future nuclear power plant, but these plans were abandoned.

Stari Grad, also on the north part of the island (pop 1,906), is the site of one of the first permanent settlements on the Adriatic islands during Antiquity.

It has an average of over 2500 hours of sunny weather annually, and is the second largest place, in size, on the Adriatic islands.

He had a strong affiliation for trainers and seaplanes, having a vision of connecting the Adriatic islands with a regular seaplane service.

Mussolini's Italy gained the remainder of Slovenia, Kosovo, and large chunks of the coastal Dalmatia region (along with nearly all its Adriatic islands).

With the Allies occupying southern Italy and controlling the Mediterranean, the Adriatic islands became a haven for the resistance (prompting Hajduk's move there in 1944.)