Trg P. Krešimira

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The Croatian kingdom was greatly weakened by the conflicts between Držislav's sons. King Stephen I began the restoration, which was successfully completed by his son Petar Krešimir IV, one of the most famous Croatian rulers, who restored the strength of the old kingdom and achieved a strong unity of the Croatian state. During his reign, the area of ​​Red Croatia (Pagania, Travunija, Zahumlje) came under the supreme authority of the Croatian crown. Byzantium, which was then at war in Asia with the Seljuk Turks, and in southern Italy with the Normans, surrendered to King Kresimir IV. Dalmatian towns and islands. Petar Kresimir IV. then he did not take the title of imperial proconsul or eparch, and thus with this cunning diplomatic move he realized the century-old dream of Croatian rulers to unite Dalmatian towns and islands with the Croatian state. Since then, "regnum Dalmatiae et Chroatiae" has not been just a formal title, but has meant a single political-administrative territory. In order to tie the Dalmatian cities more firmly to his state, King Krešimir IV. he left independence to the city administrations and undertook by separate documents that he would respect their freedom and old rights as he had found them before. He agreed to some other obligations, such as: confirmation according to the canonical regulations of the elected bishop, free trial and trade. The cities, on the other hand, pledged to King Petar Krešimir IV. that they would give him one-third of the port revenues, a "tribute of peace," and that they would help him with their fleet if war broke out. City revenues strengthened the power of Petar Krešimir, which he further strengthened by encouraging the development of the Croatian cities of Biograd, Karin, Skradin, Šibenik and Nin, and by founding numerous monasteries and donating land to the Church. Thus, on the 6th of March, he issued a privilege to the monastery of St. Marija in Zadar, where the founder and first nun was Čika from the family of Madijevci, his half-sister. This hate Gypsy monastery is important both in the Croatian cultural heritage and for maintaining the Croatian significance of Zadar, for which there were constant Venetian and later Italian appropriations.

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