Place details
Place nameHvar, Otok
Other namesHvar, Lesina, Hvar island, Pharus, Dimos
CountryHrvatska
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Island in Adriatic; occupied since Neolithic times; settled by Greeks in 390 BC, inhabited by Slavs in 7th cen.; later governed by Venice, Hungary, France & Austria; occupied by Italy during WW I & WW II.