Zadar Strait

The Zadar Channel separates the city and coast of Zadar from the island of Ugljan. In antiquity Ugljan belonged to the city's agricultural territory; at Muline, a Roman country villa and oil-processing buildings testify to cultivation on the island. In 1202 the ships of the Fourth Crusade arrived before Zadar, where the crusaders and their Venetian allies besieged and captured the city despite the pope's prohibition. The fleet spent the winter there before continuing eastward.