Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1930-01-10
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Queer Coast, Queer Names.
Even Names shores Are rivaled IN
their zigzag conformation by those OF
Dalmatfa. While direct course along
the Jugoslav Nttoral measures 300 sea-
miles, the indented length Of thar
coast Is almost three times as long.
AS for the mansfield Job of counting
Dalmatia's islands, that has been SIM
plified by ignoring insignificant islets
and putting the archipelago's units at
600 and It's area at.2,O00 square miles.
The locally published maps present
other difficulties. The kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Jugo-
slavia) has made a clean sweep OF
former Hungarian place names
in favor of their Slav equivalents
Like the out-of-luck American tourist
who wouldn't stop off at "Praha" be-
cause he wanted to get on to Prague,
the traveller today often needs bilin.
quail key to ascertain where he is.
Here Is list Of some Jugoslav place
names, with their prewar equivalents
bracketed: Lake Bled (Veldeser See),
Lake Bohinj (Wocheiner See), Ia
greb (Agram), Zadar (Zara), Sibenik
(Sebenico), Trogir (Trau), SoliD
(Salona), Split (Spalato). Cruz ezra.
vosa), Dubrovnik (Ragust). Rotor
(Cattaro).
AS neither railroad nor motor traih
spans the Jugoslav coast, one had best
take the oldest and most appropriate
Of routes, the sea lane, to rediscover
those shores whose maritime fame
antedated England's by centuries.
From among luxurious liners, more
modest steamers, and fleets Of sailing
craft, one may choose ones travelling
style along what Is one of the best
served littorals in south European
waters.
AS Susak falls astern, Italy disap-
pears behind islands. With an archi-
pelago barring the open sea and With
the velebit's barren heights rising be-
hind the narrow coast. 1t seems as If
one is navigating succession of blue
flawlessly calm lagoons.
IL Is dluOSt u AudSlCk VI 5dyLAS 6oOu~
by to Europei It is small wonder
that, with mountains barring the east
and an archipelago barring the west,
Dalmatia has always been a debatable
land of halfway house. where racially
speaking, Europe and Asia meet.
Certainly, the more one sees Of Dali
malta, the more one feels himself to-
be, while not exactly out Of Europe.
yet somehow among the fringes Of the
Orient.
Along the iiiyrian Coast.
Now and then your boat touches
port in some deep-set bay with its
hill-perched townlet-often an almost
stretches clump of vine-clad houses
which had dug its heels into the vele-
bit and held on while as yet Venice
was unheard of. Yet the tspecter Of
the lagoon republic. medieval Dali
matia's protestress, still haunts every
nook and corner of the Jugoslav coast,
Small steamers wind through the
narrow lagoonlike waters; known
along the coast as Canals" which
were once ruled by those petty poten-
tates for whom, Croatian tradition as
serts, mourning weeds have become
perpetuated as national costume
AS one sails along. now the velebit
range, its barren, slate-gray TANKS
queerly diagramed with walled karst
holes, thrusts menacingly forward
barring Croatia from the Adriatic.
Occasionally there appear ,.V-shape6
valleys where some tiny, stucco port
nestles among q luxuriance of trees,
hedged gardens. and terraced vine
yards. Such are the velebit's always
amazing GASES, created by subter.
ranean streams.
A wild strip. this. of the ancient
Illyrian coast. Wild. too. were the
first Illyrians. a mixture of pre-
Homeric Greeks and those wandering
Asians. the Liburni. after whom Rome
called the country Liburnia Legend
says that from Cadmus and Harmonic,
through their son Tllyrius, sprang the
tribes that perpetuated his name.
Just north of cara (Zadar) one en-
tiers the waters Of arcient Dalmatia.
Ranging In width from 1 to 80
miles. this little silver of a state en-.
joyed well-developed coast which
played its famous role In the sea
commerce of the Middle Ages.
Dalmatia Of to-day has an erea OF
4,916 square miles. The industries
supporting her $4,000 people are cat.
tie breeding. viticulture, cereal rats
ing. and. of course, fishing.