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unusual facts about Republic of Ragusa



Albanians in Bulgaria

Albanian settlement in northern Bulgaria was not limited to Catholics—in a 1595 letter to the Prince of Transylvania, Ragusan merchant Pavel Đorđić notes that "in Bulgaria there are many villages inhabited by Albanians, from where 7,000 brave and well-trained men can be rallied".

Italian city-states

Other city-states were associated to these "commune" cities, like Genoa, Turin and, in the Adriatic, Ragusa.

Jacques Lauriston

He occupied Venice and the Republic of Ragusa in 1806, was made governor-general of Venice in 1807, took part in the Erfurt negotiations of 1808, was ennobled as a count, and served with the emperor during the Peninsular War in Spain (1808–1809), where he commanded the division that besieged and won Pamplona.

Miroslav of Hum

On 18 August 1184 Miroslav's fleet was devastated by the Ragusian navy at Poljice near Koločep, and signed peace with the Dubrovnik Republic.

Nikola Bošković

In 2000, Serbian historian Marko Atlagić published a paper in a Univerzitet u Prištini journal in which he claimed numerous noble families from the Republic of Ragusa to be Serbian, including the Bošković's.

Ninac Vukoslavić

He is the author of both of Scanderbeg's letters written in 1450 and 1459, sent to the Republic of Ragusa, found in the Monumenta Serbica, written in Old Serbian.


see also

House of Saraka

According to Baron v. Procházka; the family Saraca "is one of the four still (1928)oldest existing from the Middle Ages, from Ston, in the Republic of Ragusa, the family immigrated to Italy, from the family were many consuls and Knez of the Republic of Ragusa".

Paladin Gundulić

In 1458, the Republic of Ragusa sent Paladin Gundulić and Paladin Lukarić to visit the Ottoman sultan in Skopje.

Stulić

Joakim Stulić (1730–1817), lexicographer from the Republic of Ragusa, author of the biggest dictionary in the older Croatian lexicography

Luko Stulić (1772–1828), scientist from the Republic of Ragusa who first made epidemiological studies of heritable skin disorders