(Italian: distretti politici or capitanati distrettuali, Croatian: kotari or kotarska poglavarstva) whose capitals were (1880): Benkovac Dubrovnik Hvar Imotski Knin Korčula Kotor Makarska Metković Sinj Split Šibenik Zadar Districts, as governmental units with the government-appointed prefect (Italian: capitano distrettuale, Croatian: kotarski poglavar), were subdivided into judicial districts (Italian: distretti giudiziari, Croatian: sudski kotari) and these into municipalities (Italian: comuni, Croatian: općine) as local authorities with the elected municipal council (Italian: consiglio comunale, Croatian: općinsko vijeće) and the mayor (Italian: podestà, Croatian: načelnik) elected by the council. Religion The Roman Catholic archbishop had his seat in Zadar, while the diocese of Kotor, diocese of Hvar, diocese of Dubrovnik, diocese of Šibenik and diocese of Split were bishoprics. At the head of the Orthodox community stood the bishop of Zadar. The use of Croatian-Slavonic liturgies written in the Glagolitic alphabet, a very ancient privilege of the Roman Catholics in Dalmatia and Croatia, caused much controversy during the first years of the 20th century. There was considerable danger that the Latin liturgies would be altogether superseded by the Glagolitic, especially among the northern islands and in rural communes, where the Slavonic element is all-powerful. In 1904, the Vatican forbade the use of Glagolitic at the festival of SS. Cyril and Methodius, as likely to impair the unity of Catholicism. A few years previously the Slavonic archbishop Rajcevic of Zara, in discussing the "Glagolitic controversy", had denounced the movement as "an innovation introduced by Panslavism to make it easy for the Catholic clergy, after any great revolution in the Balkan States, to break with Latin Rome." Governors Head of the Austrian imperial administration in Dalmatia was Imperial-Royal Provincial Governor (Italian: I. R. Governatore Provinciale, Croatian: c. k. Guverner) appointed by the emperor. From 1852 he was known as Imperial-Royal Lieutenant (Italian: I. R. Luogotenente, Croatian: c. k. Namjesnik''). Franjo Tomašić (1815–1831) Wenzeslau Lilienberg Water (1831–1841) Ivan August Turszky (1841–1848) Ludwig von Welden (1848) Josip Jelačić (1848–1859) Lazar Mamula (1859–1865) Franjo Filipović (1865–1868) Johann Wagner (1868–1869) Gottfried Auersperg (1869) Julius Fluk von Leidenkron (1869–1870) Gavrilo Rodić (1870–1881) Stjepan Jovanović (1882–1885) Ludovik Cornaro (1885–1886) Dragutin Blažeković (1886–1890) Emil David (1890–1902) Erasmus Handel (1902–1905) Nicola Nardelli (1905–1911) Mario Attems (1911–1918) Military Military units in the kingdom at the start of the First World War: Common Army 22nd (Dalmatian) Infantry Regiment "Graf von Lacy" (garrison: Spalato/Split) Imperial-Royal Landwehr Imperial-Royal Mounted Dalmatian State Rifle Division (garrison: Sinj) 23rd Imperial-Royal