page_title: Governorate of Dalmatia
section_title: Territory
hierarchical_section_title: Governorate of Dalmatia / Territory
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Governorate of Dalmatia (1941-43) showing the provinces of Zara, Spalato and Cattaro. Source data Volkstumskarte von Jugoslawien, Wilfried Krallert (1941)
context_page_description: The Governorate of Dalmatia, was a territory divided in three Provinces of Italy during Italian Kingdom and Italian Empire epoch, created in April 1941 at the start of World War II in Yugoslavia from the existing Province of Zara together with occupied Yugoslav territory annexed by Italy after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers and the signing of the Rome Treaties.
context_section_description: The Governorate of Dalmatia consisted of three provinces: Zara (Zadar), Spalato (Split) and Cattaro (Kotor). The administrative capital was Zara.
  After the autumn of 1941 the Dalmatian islands of Pag (Pago), Brač (Brazza) and Hvar (Lesina), part of the Independent State of Croatia, were occupied by the Italian army, along with an area of Croatia which was away from the coast of Sinj towards the center of Bosnia, near Sarajevo and Banja Luka. However these were not formally annexed to the Governorate.
caption: Detailed map of the three provinces of the Governorate of Dalmatia
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