The data on island colonization associated with the Illyrian tribe Japoden Liburna, then the Greeks, when the island of Krk belongs Elektridskim or Apsirtidskim-day-Kvarner islands. The Romans until the end of the old era and the first century BC. But already the 6th century Croats began to settle on the island become an absolute majority.
On the island of Krk is very early Christianity arrived and is already in the 5th c. not formed and the diocese with the town of Krk and the first known Bishop Andrew (680). The Croats settled in families by castles and therefore today there are four different dialects.
In late 12 th century appear from these genera and the famous Dukes of Krk-Frankopani. It is the only family on the Adriatic islands, which are developed to be in European-scale originating from Vrbnik, and their estates were spread on the mainland: Trsat, Copper, Kraljevica, Crikvenica, Novi Vinodolski and Otocac Brinje etc. so Frankopani at the peak of his powers possessed territory equal to half of today's Croatian.
The island of Krk has fallen into the hands of Venice 1480th as the last island in the Adriatic, when the fraud was taken captive by the Venetian duke Ivan Frankopan.
After the collapse of Croatian Frankopans in the 15th century, Krk changed many rulers of the Venetians, French, Austro - Hungary, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, and finally, after five centuries, the island of Krk is again an integral part of the Croatian corpus.
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