Arplaninac

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The arplaninac or arplaninec, also known as Sharplaninac/Sharplaninec or Illyrian Shepherd Dog, is an ancient livestock guarding dog breed from the ar Mountains region in the Balkans. The arplaninac was first registered by the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI) in 1939 as the Illyrian Shepherd dog in part because of a Slovenian and Serb led nationalist movement that sought to distance itself from Austria and Germany. This movement held that the Southern kingdoms of Slavs were part of a greater pan-Illyrian heritage and they saw this breed as emblematic of that heritage. This little known fact has often been overlooked when discussing the history of this breed and the associated nomenclature and their origins.