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The necropolis has yielded many pieces of pottery, including some from South Italy. The wall of the cavea of the theater, built in the Roman period, is incorporated into the present Franciscan Monastery. It could seat about 3000 persons. Inscriptions, statues, coins, and pottery are preserved in the
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resistance movement. It was occupied by Italy between 1941 and 1943, then was liberated by the Partisans and held by a British flotilla in 1943–44. At the end of World War II the island returned to Yugoslavia. During the war the island was mined. Allied fighter planes were based at a small airfield
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of paperback books was dropped by parachute along with other supplies on to Vis Island off the coast of Yugoslavia. The books were then read aloud to the partisans by English speaking soldiers who translated the books as they read them.
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The farthest inhabited island off the Croatian mainland, Vis had a population of 3,313 in 2021. Vis has an area of 90.26 square kilometres (34.85 square miles). Its highest point is
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did not reclaim most of the facilities, and the many abandoned buildings are being used for civilian purposes and tourism, including tunnels, bunkers and a secret
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walls, still visible in an irregular quadrangle (265 x 360 m) that enclosed an area of 9.8 ha. The street grid and foundations of houses have been found.
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Vis town and Komiža are seats of separate administrative municipalities which cover the entire island and nearby islets, which are both part of
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from 1814. In official Austrian (Habsburg) administration, as with other places in Dalmatia up until 1909, it maintained its Italian name of
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Bartoli, Matteo. Le parlate italiane della Venezia Giulia e della Dalmazia. Tipografia italo-orientale. Grottaferrata 1919
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229-219 B.C. when it became a pawn in the battles of greater powers. In the civil war it sided with
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and consequently lost its privileges and autonomy in 47 B.C. when it was reduced to the rank of an
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until 1989. The island's main industries are viticulture, fishing, fish processing, and tourism.
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There used to be direct ship lines to Italy during summer season. In 2010 Termoli Jet started
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on the island's eastern side (the settlement for which the island was originally named) and
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This article is about the island of Vis. For the town on the island of the same name, see
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that was also used for emergency landings of Allied bombers, including an American
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base. In 2008, 34 mines left over from World War II were cleared from the island.
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Source: Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857–2001, DZS, Zagreb, 2005
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until abandoning the base in 1989. After Croatia became independent in 1991,
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archaeological museums at Split and Zagreb. Later, it became an independent
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Vis was at one point the site of the general headquarters of Marshal
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The sea to the north of the island was the location of two battles:
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on the island. A town on an island of the same name was settled by
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extensively used the airfield as a forward operating base, flying
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movement. After the war, Vis was used as a naval base for the
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The sea around Vis is rich with fish, especially blue fish (
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on 20 July 1866, the smaller Austrian fleet, under Admiral
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passenger service Split-Vis, which took some 15 minutes.
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archipelago, forms part of the Croatian Offshore Islands
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Mk IV fighter aircraft, from May 1944 to February 1945.
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because it supports significant breeding populations of
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in ground support of allied troops fighting in Italy.
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The island's main industries are agriculture (mainly
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The island's two largest settlements are the 27:Croatian island off the Balkan Peninsula coast 2304: 1766: 1377: 1375: 1179:The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites 8: 1167:An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis 1094:Partisan planes on Vis airfield, World War 2 291: 39: 759:, defeated a larger French squadron in the 2311: 2297: 2289: 1773: 1759: 1751: 290: 47: 38: 978:Vis is accessed only by boat from Split. 692:and is notable for a large vocabulary of 275:, the island was the headquarters of the 2617:Important Bird Areas of Adriatic islands 1646:. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 2001. 1598:News, Total Croatia (9 September 2016). 1300:. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 2001. 857:During WWII the island was also home to 1736:Komiza - Island Vis Tourist Association 1133: 1021: 1626: 1616: 852:British military mission to Yugoslavia 755:squadron under the command of Captain 555:(IBA). This was designated as such by 539:and the neighbouring islet of Kamnik, 1741:Vis - Croatian National Tourist Board 982:services the island using mainly the 590:Vis was inhabited by the time of the 206: 117:89.72 km (34.64 sq mi) 7: 1494:"Indigenous Treasures of island Vis" 1283:Spezialortsrepertorium Von Dalmatien 830:During World War II, a crate of the 1413:Demark, Nikolina (15 August 2017). 877:used the island as one of its main 716:, Most of the inhabitants speaking 511:, which is 587 metres (1,926 feet) 2632:Landforms of Split-Dalmatia County 1571:Olivieri, Maurizio (4 June 2015). 25: 1326:Council on Books in Wartime, and 838:Early in July 1944, the novelist 798:Adriatic Campaign of World War II 704:After the short-lived Napoleonic 586:List of ancient cities in Illyria 2572: 1691:Lovell, Mary S. (5 April 2012). 1390:. pp. 34–37. 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Index

Vis Island
Vis (town)

Adriatic Sea
43°02′33″N 16°09′09″E / 43.04250°N 16.15250°E / 43.04250; 16.15250
Hum
County
Split-Dalmatia
Vis
[ʋîːs]
Ancient Greek
Latin
Italian
Croatian
Adriatic Sea
World War I
Liburnians
Republic of Venice
Kingdom of Italy
Austrian Empire
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Treaty of Rapallo
World War II
Yugoslav Partisan
Yugoslav People's Army
Hum
above sea level
town of Vis
Komiža
Brusnik

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