During the early centuries most of the people came from the eastern parts of Europe as workers imported by rich landowners.

Some of people which took refuge were Croats, Montenegrins, Serbs, Romanians, Bosnians, Albanians, Greeks, and other Eastern Europeans.

In the Cerovica (Istria) contrada (Parish, Precinct, Country), of the Labinština peninsula, there are many such settlements some of which are now deserted.

Croatian: Skitača, Italian: Schitazza is located on the mount by the same name on the Labinština peninsula in Istria County, Croatia.

[4] During the re-population of Istria, settled people which were called Romanian were brought with other Slavs from the southern provinces of Croatia to reclaim the land which was destroyed by the wars between the Venice Republic and Austria-Hungary.

They came from the lower Danube river and were brought to the east of Europe to protect the borders of the Roman Empire.

In the county of Istria, the Romanians lived in the following hamlets; Passert, Gradigne (Letaj), Grobnico, Sugnevizza (Šušnjevica), Berdo, Villanova and Jessenovizza, Jesenovik, in the superior Val d'arsa.

[5] Today Skitača is almost deserted, but since the area was discovered by tourists there are people who live in the village for most of the summer.

In 1632 the chapel became a Parish and the head of the Township of Cerovica, also called St Lucia in Schitazza under the Venice Republic.

She met another young man who was a Pagan and she taught him about God, and although she was told that she must not see him again she continued to meet him.

These territories were called the Austria Provinces of the Littoral and were divided into political sections known as: Province of the Littoral, Economic Circulatory #XII, Circle of Istria, Austrian Circle and the local area called Labinština was named District of Albona.