Novalja

Novalja is a town in the north of the island of Pag inside the Croatian part of Adriatic Sea. In recent instances, Novalja has come to be famous due to the Zrce Beach. The earliest settlers at the island had been an Illyrian tribe that came to the area inside the Bronze Age; strains in their agreement can nevertheless be visible round Pag. In the 1st century BC, the Romans took ownership, and have left severa archeological and cultural artifacts. Novalja is the successor of a Roman town called Cissa, considered through many pupils to be the seat of an historic Christian bishopric of that name.

Others choose to identify the see with an island metropolis of the equal name in Istria, near to provide-day Rovinj. A bishop of Cissa named Vindemius took component in some year between 571 and 577 in a schismatic synod in Grado referred to as with the aid of Patriarch Elias of Aquileia. Arrested with the aid of the Exarch of Ravenna he turned into forced to abjure his perspectives on the controversy of the Three Chapters, but as soon as loose from Byzantine Empire manage reaffirmed his position and participated in another schismatic synod in 590.