Editing Istria (section)

===Middle Ages===
[[File:Oton Ivekovic, Dolazak Hrvata na Jadran.jpg|thumb|[[Oton Iveković]], ''The Croats' arrival at the Adriatic Sea'']]
The first [[History of Istria#Avaro-Slavic invasions and settlement|Avaro-Slavic invasion of Istria]] was recorded in 599. Another major incursion occurred around 600–602, in which all of Istria was devastated with fire and rapine. This was followed by the 611 invasion, the most devastating for the peninsula. It remains unclear when and how the first Slavic settlement occurred. Traces of early Slavic incursions and settlement are scarce.<ref name="Bekic"/> A few Avar findings have been discovered on the Istrian territory, chiefly around [[Nesactium]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Štih |first1=Peter |title=The Middle Ages Between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic |date=2010 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004187702 |page=198}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Begic |first1=Vanesa |title=AVARI I SLAVENI JUŽNO OD DRAVE: Vitrina s dva avarska predmeta iz Arheološkog muzeja Istre |url=https://www.glasistre.hr/izlozbe/avari-i-slaveni-juzno-od-drave-vitrina-s-dva-avarska-predmeta-iz-arheoloskog-muzeja-istre-736459 |publisher=Glas Istre}}</ref> By 642 the Slavs were settled in the peninsula, as indicated by the mission of an abbot Martin, sent by [[Pope John IV]] to rescue captives held by the pagans in Istria and [[Dalmatia (Roman province)|Dalmatia]].<ref name="Bekic">{{cite book |last1=Bekic |first1=Luka |title=The Early Medieval Between Pannonia and the Adriatic |date=2016 |publisher=Archaeological Museum of Istria |pages=1–301}}</ref>

After the barbaric invasions, the western part of Istria was annexed to the [[Kingdom of the Lombards|Lombard]] Kingdom in 751, and then annexed to the Frankish kingdom by [[Pepin of Italy]] in 789.  In 804, the [[Placitum of Riziano]] was held in the Parish of Rižan ({{langx|la|Risanum}}), which was a meeting between the representatives of Istrian towns and castles and the deputies of [[Charlemagne]] and his son Pepin. The report about this judicial diet illustrates the changes accompanying the transfer of power from the Eastern Roman Empire to the [[Carolingian Empire]] and the discontent of the local residents.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Oto Luthar |title=The land between: a history of Slovenia |year=2008 |publisher=Peter Lang |location=Frankfurt am Main |isbn=978-3-631-57011-1 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9tDboBJ70EC&pg=PA100}}</ref>

Afterwards it was successively controlled by the dukes of [[Carantania]], [[Merania]], [[Bavaria]] and by the [[patriarch of Aquileia]], before it became the territory of the [[Republic of Venice]] in 1267. The medieval [[Kingdom of Croatia (medieval)|Croatian kingdom]] held only the far eastern part of Istria (the border was near the river [[Raša (river)|Raša]]), but they lost it to the [[Holy Roman Empire]] in the late 11th century.