Dalmatian identity

[3] The Autonomist Party has been accused of secretly having been a pro-Italian movement due to their defense of the rights of ethnic Italians in Dalmatia.

[3] Also support for the autonomy of Dalmatia, had deep historic roots in identifying Dalmatian culture as linking Western culture via Venetian Italian influence and Eastern culture via South Slavic influence, such a view was supported by Dalmatian autonomist Stipan Ivičević.

[4] The Autonomist Party did not claim to be an Italian movement, and indicated that it sympathized with a sense of heterogeneity amongst Dalmatians in opposition to ethnic nationalism.

[3] In the 1861 elections, the Autonomists won twenty-seven seats in Dalmatia, while Dalmatia's Croatian nationalist movement, the People's Party, won only fourteen seats.

[7] Dalmatian National Party (Croatian: Dalmatinska nacionalna stranka) was a political organisation in Croatia (despite its name, it was not registered as political party) which promoted revival of Dalmatian language and creation of autonomous region of Dalmatia in Dalmatia and Quarnaro islands region.