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the region gradually started to move into safer parts of the country or abroad. The linguistic character of the region changed, as many indigenous Chakavian-speakers left while in their place arrived speakers of Neo-Shtokavian Ikavian from western Herzegovina and western Bosnia, as well as Orthodox speakers of Ijekavian dialects. In 1513 the town of Modrus, the location of the episcopal see in Lika, was overrun by the Ottomans. In 1527 they

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