Dalmatia

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Dalmatia
       n : a historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea;
           mountainous with many islands

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Dalmatia
     a mountainous country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic, a
     part of the Roman province of Illyricum. It still bears its
     ancient name. During Paul's second imprisonment at Rome, Titus
     left him to visit Dalmatia (2 Tim. 4:10) for some unknown
     purpose. Paul had himself formerly preached in that region (Rom.
     15:19).
     
       The present Emperor of Austria bears, among his other titles,
     that of "King of Dalmatia."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Dalmatia, deceitful lamps; vain brightness
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Dalmatia, PA
    Zip code(s): 17017