Island Vrgada

  Vrgada belongs to the coastal part of the Zadar archipelago and is located at the extreme southeastern part. This is a relatively small island with an area of 3.67 square kilometers. It is covered by forest, in the northeastern part, while the south-western coast descends steeply into the sea. The distance from the mainland […]

Vrgada is first mentioned as a fortified town called Lumbricaton or Loumbricaton year 950 in the work of the Byzantine emperor Porphyrogenitus “Management Empire”. At the end of the 10th and early 11th century in the “Chronicle venetor”, Venetian chronicler Ivana Deacon records the name Levigrada or Levigrate. The charter St. Grisogono (issued in 1096) […]

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