Geography of Lika-Senj County

thumb|1785 map of Europe showing "Morlachia" in the yellow coast at the right below the blue part of the map. Morlachia is displayed between the regions labelled as "Istria", "Croatia", "Bosnia" and "[[Dalmatia".]] Morlachia (; ; ; ) was a vaguely defined region, named after the Morlachs, used on European maps between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Morlachia was located in modern-day Croatia between Istria and Dalmatia, being opposite to the island of Krk. The Morlachs were originally a Romance people related to modern Romanians before their Slavicisation.