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SEBENICO (Serbo-Croatian, Sibenik)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEBENICO (Serbo-Croatian, Sibenik) , an episcopal See also:city, and the centre of an administrative See also:district in See also:Dalmatia, See also:Austria; at the end of a See also:branch railway from Knin. Pop. (1900) of city and See also:commune, 24,751. Sebenico is built on a See also:hill overlooking the See also:river Kerka, which here forms a broad See also:basin, connected by a winding channel with the Adriatic See also:Sea, 3 m. S.W. The city is partly walled, and guarded on the seaward See also:side by the 16th-See also:century See also:castle of St See also:Anna and two dismantled forts. Venetian See also:influence is everywhere See also:manifest; the See also:Lion of St See also:Mark is carved over the See also:main gateway and on many public buildings; and among the narrow and steep lanes of the city there are numerous examples of Venetian See also:Gothic or See also:early See also:Renaissance See also:architecture. Sebenico has been the seat of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop since 1288. It has also an orthodox bishop. The Roman Catholics, who constitute the See also:majority of citizens, possess a lofty and beautiful cruciform See also:cathedral, built entirely of See also:stone and See also:metal. Probably no other See also:church of equal See also:size in See also:Europe is similarly constructed. Even the waggon vaults over the See also:nave, See also:choir and transepts are of stone unprotected by See also:lead or tiles.

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part of the cathedral, dating from 1430 to 1441, and including the See also:fine See also:north See also:doorway, is See also:Italian Gothic. Giorgio See also:Orsini of See also:Zara, who had studied architecture in See also:Venice and been strongly influenced by the Italian Renascence, carried on the See also:work of construction until his See also:death in 1475. It was finished early in the 16th century; and thus the cathedral belongs to two distinct periods and represents two distinct styles. Sebenico is lighted by electric See also:light; the See also:power being supplied by the celebrated falls of the Kerka, near Scardona, on the north. Sebenico is a steamship station, with an excellent See also:harbour. See also:Wine, oil, See also:corn and See also:honey are produced in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood; many of the inhabitants are fishermen and See also:seamen. The Latin name of Sicum is adopted in public See also:inscriptions; but the city cannot be identified with the Roman See also:colony of Sicum, which was probably situated farther See also:south. Sebenico first became prominent in the 12th century as a favourite See also:residence of the Croatian See also:kings. From 1358 to 1412 it was ruled by I'ungary; it subsequently formed part of the Venetian dominions. In 1647 it was unsuccessfully besieged by the See also:Turks.

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