{"slug": "hvar", "label": "Hvar", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvar", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5993", "qid": "Q5993", "description": "island of Croatia", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-383, 1424], "span_label": ["384 BCE", "1424 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "philip-v-of-macedon", "label": "Philip V of Macedon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "corcyra", "label": "Corcyra", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "apollonia-illyria", "label": "Apollonia (Illyria)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "demetrius-of-pharos", "label": "Demetrius of Pharos", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dalmatia", "label": "Dalmatia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zadar", "label": "Zadar", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -383, "year_label": "384 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Greeks found the colony of Pharos at the site of today’s Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, defeating Iadasinoi warriors brought in for its defense.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209990210#Greece", "title": "384 BC", "revid": 1209990210, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -228, "year_label": "229 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The First Illyrian War started when the Roman Senate dispatched an army under the command of the consuls Lucius Postumius Albinus and Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus to Illyria. Rome forced the withdrawal of Illyrian garrisons in the Greek cities of Epidamnus, Apollonia, Corcyra and Pharos and establishes a protectorate over these Greek towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1205848400#Illyria", "title": "229 BC", "revid": 1205848400, "section": "Events › By place › Illyria"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius seeks refuge with Philip V of Macedon, who is very resentful of the Roman interference. Rome occupies Demetrius' chief fortresses, Pharos and Dimillos.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Greece", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -218, "year_label": "219 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman Senate sends the consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus to Illyria with an army. On discovering Rome's intent, the Illyrian leader Demetrius of Pharos puts to death those Illyrians who oppose his rule, fortifies Dimale and goes to Pharos. After a seven-day siege by the Roman fleet under Lucius Aemilius Paulus, Dimale is taken by direct assault. From Dimale, the Roman navy heads to Pharos, where the Roman forces rout the Illyrians. Demetrius flees to Macedonia, where he becomes a trusted councilor at the court of King Philip V.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325717539#Greece", "title": "219 BC", "revid": 1325717539, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -214, "year_label": "215 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Philip V of Macedon and Hannibal negotiate an alliance under which they pledge mutual support and defence. Specifically, they agree to support each other against Rome, and that Hannibal shall have the right to make peace with Rome, but that any peace would include Philip and that Rome would be forced to give up control of Corcyra, Apollonia, Epidamnus, Pharos, Dimale, Parthini and Atintania and to restore to Demetrius of Pharos all his lands currently controlled by Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337286145#Greece", "title": "215 BC", "revid": 1337286145, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": 1424, "year_label": "1424 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Dalmatia: Aliota Capenna, lord of Lesina (modern-day Hvar), offers his realm to the Republic of Venice (also said to have occurred in 1409 and 1421).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656911#Date_unknown", "title": "1424", "revid": 1365656911, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}