It was an Illyrian settlement (Scardona) on the boundary between the Delmati and the Liburnian tribes.
In October 1683, the population of Venetian Dalmatia, principally Uskoks of Ravni kotari, took arms and together with the rayah (lower class) of the Ottoman frontier regions rose up, taking Skradin, Karin, Vrana, Benkovac and Obrovac [REF].