In 1726 Albanian refugees (from Shkoder region) fleeing the Turks, founded a colony just ouside of Zadar Croatia. This colony came to be called Arbanasi (the Albanians).

 In Zadar these refugees were settled first around Zemunik and some later moved to Borgo Errizzo ( later called “Arbanasi”) one mile outside of Zadar, nowadays a suburb of Zadar.  Zemunik was about 14 kilometres east from Zadar.  Overtime the Arbanasi refugees slowly moved to Zadar itself, to Ploce, Crno and Dracevac Zadarski.