For over 800 years they have been connecting the two ends of Zadar's harbour with their small rowboats in any weather conditions ...

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