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.One of the aims of Monarchy's politics was to separate Dalmatia from the rest of Croatia; therefore, it proclaimed Italian as the official language and encouraged immigration of the Italians.The immigrants mostly settled in  Zadar as it was capital of the province.The population list in 1818 noted 5.386 citizens and until the second half of the 19th century no significiant increase was recorded.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: 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 the Italian cultural and national revival in Dalmatia.Its population in 1910 was 36.595 in the commune (including an Austrian garrison) and 14.056 in the town (including 3.532 Serbocroatians)