People's Party was a political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia

Kingdom of Dalmatia

The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.-History:...

. It was founded in 1861 after the failure of Bach

Baron Alexander von Bach

Baron Alexander von Bach was an Austrian politician...

's absolutism, as branch of the People's Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia

The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia or Croatia Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was part of the Hungarian Kingdom within the dual Austro-Hungarian state, being within the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen or Transleithania...

. Its members were known as narodnjaci, aneksionisti or puntari.

Its political goal was uniting Dalmatia with Croatia and Slavonia, stemming from their ideological origins in the Illyrian movement

Illyrian movement

The Illyrian movement , also Croatian national revival , was a cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian intellectuals during the first half of 19th century, around the years of 1835–1849...

. It also gathered prominent Dalmatian Italians

Dalmatian Italians

Dalmatian Italians are a mostly historical Italian national minority in the region of Dalmatia, part of the Republics of Croatia and Montenegro.-Characteristics:...

 as well as Dalmatian Serbs

Serbs of Croatia

Višeslav of Serbia, a contemporary of Charlemagne , ruled the Županias of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim, his ancestral lands. According to the Royal Frankish Annals , Duke of Pannonia Ljudevit Posavski fled, during the Frankish invasion, from his seat in Sisak to the Serbs in western Bosnia, who...

. However, a Serb faction splintered in 1878, led by Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša

Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša

Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša , was a Serbian-Montenegrin writer and politician. He is famous for his unique short stories, generally ranked among the masterpieces of Serbian literature in its day...

, into the Serb People's Party (Dalmatia)

Serb People's Party (Dalmatia)

Serb People's Party was an ethnic Serb political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia during the time of Austria-Hungary.Following the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1876, the People's Party was in power. In 1878, led by Sava Bjelanović, the Serb members of the party left and founded the Serb Party...

.

It united with the Party of Rights in 1905.

Notable members

• Konstantin Vojnović
  Konstantin Vojnović
  Konstantin pl. Vojnović was a Serbian-Croatian politician, university professor and rector.Vojnović was born in Herceg Novi into the of Serbian noble family House of Vojnović, who converted from Serbian Ortodoxy to Roman Catholicism by his grandmother.He graduated law at the University of Vienna...
  
  
• Miho Klaić
  Miho Klaić
  Miho Klaić was a Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia.He obtained a PhD in architecture in Padua, Italy. He was a member of the National Party and was elected as member of the Diet of Dalmatia in the National Committee...
  
  
• Natko Nodilo
  Natko Nodilo
  Natko Nodilo was Croatian politician, historian, publicist, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb....
  
  
• Lovro Monti
  Lovro Monti
  Lovro Monti was a Croatian politician of Italian descent. He was a Dalmatian Italian, whose grandfather fought for the Republic of Venice against Napoleon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mihovil Pavlinović
• Jovan Sundečić
  Jovan Sundecic
  Jovan Sundečić , was a Serbian poet from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a secretary of Prince Nikola I of Montenegro...
  
  
• Gajo Bulat
  Gajo Bulat
  Gajo F. Bulat was a Croatian lawyer who served as the Mayor of Split and as a member of the Diet of Dalmatia and the Vienna Imperial Council....