Dugi otok

Dugi Otok is the seventh biggest island inside the Adriatic Sea, part of Croatia. It is placed off the Dalmatian coast, west of Zadar. It is the biggest and westernmost of the Zadarian Islands, and derives its name from its extraordinary shape: it is 44.5 km long by way of 4.8 km wide, with an area of 114 square kilometres. Its elevation reaches three hundred m; and many of its higher quantities contain stands of Maritime Pine. The island has been inhabited on account that prehistoric instances, as evidenced by using many archeological websites that have nonetheless now not been absolutely investigated. The earliest findings date returned to Paleolithic,

and numerous hillforts and grave sites are proof of continuous agreement all through Eneolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII inside the tenth century referred to it beneath the call of Pizuh, and later it turned into called Insula Tilagus in documents and its Latin call become Insula maior. In the fifteenth century it become registered as Veli otok.