Eines der Markenzeichen von Zadar sind die Bootsfahrer "barkajoli", die schon seit dem 14. Jh. in kleinen Ruderbooten die zwei Ufer des städtischen Hafens in allen Wetterbedingungen verbinden und ihren treuen Passagieren so Zeit sparen.

Geoffroy de Villehardouin (1160-1213), a prominent French nobleman, contributed one of the major eyewitness accounts of the Fourth Crusade and the events leading to the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

Konrad von Grünemberg was a German pilgrim who travelled along Dalmatian Coast and visited Zadar on his pilgrimage to the Holly Land in 1486.

The legend speaks of a Roman woman, the wife of a patrician, who was held under house arrest because of her wish to remain a virgin.

Zadarski kroničari navode kako je 27. travnja 1285. tijelo sv. Šime, biblijskog starca i Isusova suvremenika, donijeto iz Palestine u Zadar.

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos about the origins of Zadar, 4th cent. BC