Original sentence: After losing Lombardy and Venetia Austrian government replaced a number of its administrators to Zadar (mostly of Italian ethnicity).In the period between 1880 and 1910, 15% of population of Zadar district were Italian speakers, the most of them settled in Zadar and before WWI the city was the center of the Italian irredentism in Dalmatia.In the second half of the 19th century, the city was a centre of dual Croatian and pro-Italian cultural and national revival in Dalmatia.Italian language became dominant in the second half of the 19th century, although only 15-20% of population were Italians; 50% citizens were from Zadar district and 30% from other Dalmatian cities.Its population in 1910 was 18.077.These settlers made a considerable influence on ethnic and social structure of the city in the following decades.Zadar citizens played an important role in the movement of the annection of Dalmatia to the rest of Croatian teritory and two newspapers were established: Zora Dalmatinska (1844), Narodni List (1862) - the oldest existing newspaper in Croatia
Edited sentence: In the second half of the 19th century, the city was the  center Italian cultural and national revival in Dalmatia, due to its large Italian majority.Like in other Dalmatian cities, there was also a Croat nationalistic movement which claimend the the annection of Dalmatia to Croatia.Some newspaper were established: Zora Dalmatinska (1844), Narodni List (1862) - the oldest existing newspaper in Croatia