Yerko Garafulic Parivicini

During the Napoleonic Wars, Brac was conquered by the French Empire for a short time in 1806. In 1807, Prince-Bishop Peter | Njegos of Montenegro managed to sieze Brac with the help of the Russian navy, however already at the Congress of Viena in 1815 the island was returned to the Ausrian Empire. Brac was incorporated into the Austrain crownland of Dalmatia from and became a part of Transleithania of the Monarchy of Austra-Hungary from 1867. After the fall of Austria-Hungary 1918, Brac became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, or Yugoslavia since 1929. In 1939 an autonomous Croatian Banate was created that included the island.