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Page 126
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1854
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fra li plenipo-tentiarii dell’ Eccelso imperio, e della República, dal giorno della sottoscrittione delli plenipotenliarii di S. M. Ces. e di Polonia dell’accordato per la república deve cessare ogni hostilità, tanto per terra, quanto per mare, ed osservarsi ogni buona corrispondenza, ed affinché li retori d’ ogni confine habbino la notitia di questo armistitio, si pone per le parti di Bosnia, e Albania e Dalmatia
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1854
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32 LIBRO XLI, CAPO Vili. ed obbligò la piazza a capitolare. Fu questo il frutto delle fatiche di dieci giorni; frutto, che gli riuscì fecondo di sessanta pezzi di cannone di grosso calibro, oltre a molti altri di minore grandezza. La guarnigione e gli abitanti, che in tutto erano tre mila uomini, vi uscirono il dì 6 agosto e furono trasportati al castello di Prevesa sulle coste dell’Albania
Page 345
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1854
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posizione c fortezza si dalla parte di terra che da quella del mare. In essa, come altrove ho notato, aveva residenza il veneziano provveditore generale di tulta la Dalmazia e dell’ Albania : ma per lo governo particolare di essa vol. xi. 43'
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1853
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gli ho » confirmali ; et anco tutti gli altri commandamenti siano accettali » da parte di mia maestà. » La signoria di Vinetia per l’isola di Cipro pagava per lo • avanti ogn’anno otto mila cecchini i quali mai più non debbano • pagare. Alcuni luoghi che sono in Albania et Dalmalia per es-» sere entrati in poter di questa parie et alcuni per essere in mano • della signoria di Vinetia volemo che siano dominati
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Page 80
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1854
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76 LIBRO XLI, CAPO XXV. Così (li lutta la Morea rimase padrona la repubblica. Nacque allora nell’ animo del provvedilor generale da mare il desiderio di tentare la conquista altresì della Vallona sulla costa di Albania all’imboccatura dell Adriatico. E pose tosto ad effetto il suo desiderio. Vi si presentò con le sue forze navali il dì 11 settembre. Era presidiato il luogo da sette mila turchi
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1853
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158 unno xxxm, capo xxxvhì. loro coraggio ; sicché, non curando punto le tempeste impetuose che agitavano il mare, risolsero di tentare 1’ espugnazione di Malgariti, castello dei turchi sulle coste dell’Albania. Furono mandate perciò a quella volta trenta galere, sotto la scorta di Marco Quirini, con sei mila fanti governati da Francesco Cornaro provveditore di Corfù, da Prospero Colonna
Page 291
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1904
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tribute. The Pope renewed the exemption to trade with the Infidel. The one danger was that the Turks should suddenly desire to capture the city, as on more than one occasion they had been on the point of doing. It required all the skilful diplomacy of the Senate to avoid this contingency. In January 1474 the Turks renewed their incursions into Albania. Skanderbeg on his deathbed had entrusted the task
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1904
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in captivity for three years, until he managed to raise the 3000 scudi required as his ransom, and returned to Spain a ruined man. But the King gave him a new command, and a pension of 40 scudi a month. He served with distinction with the Levant fleet on the coasts of Anatolia and of Albania in 1605-6, and later with the Western fleet. He died, loaded with honours, in 1625. Another member of this family, Don
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1904
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from the three harbours of Antivari via the Sutorman Pass, Budua by the bridle path to Cetinje (still in use), and Cattaro by the road to Cetinje. A little further east the three branches met, and the route proceeded over well-wooded mountains, now, alas, bare and desolate, past the ruins of Doclea to Podgorica (a day and a half from Cattaro) ; then to the Plava lake, one of the fairest spots in Albania
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1904
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to be really alarmed at the progress of the Turks in Albania, and saw the necessity of allying herself with the other Dalmatian townships, “propter oppressionem Turcorum.” In 1390 the Senate had tried in vain to mediate between the King of Bosnia and Hungary, so as to end the war which was desolating the country,4 and now it made a proposal of this kind to 1 Gelcich, Balia, 140. 2 The mountainous region
Page 157
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1904
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, and all had branch routes to the various mining and commercial centres of Servia, Bosnia, Hlum, Albania, and Bulgaria. Ragusa, owing to her geographical position, was always the chief market on the Adriatic for the hinterland, and Ragusan caravans were constantly travelling along the various routes. The chief exports from the Slavonic lands were cattle, cheese, dried fish from the lake of Scutari, skins
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1904
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Isak Beg invaded Croatia, passing through Bosnia with 3000 men, and raided the territory of Zara, while another army entered Wallachia and Transsilvania, forcing the lord of Wallachia to recognise the Sultan’s supremacy. Two years later, however, the Turks met with a serious check in Albania, where a native force under Arneth Spata defeated the invaders several times; in 1435 1 Matkovic, Rad., 235-36
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1904
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160 THE REPUBLIC OF RAGUSA the Sponza, where the proper amount of duty was assessed and paid. All business was transacted at or around this building. To this day it serves as a custom-house, and still forms a picturesque background for the crowds of peasants and traders from all parts of Dalmatia, the Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania who congregate here on market days, although the traffic
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1904
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178 THE REPUBLIC OF RAGUSA They were now able to negotiate with Venice, and became an important Power in the Adriatic. This ultimately proved advantageous for the Ragusans, to whom they granted many privileges and opened the trade routes up the rivers of Northern Albania. They also obtained for the Republic from the Servian Tsar the full possession of the island of Meleda.1 But the peace failed
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1904
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224 THE REPUBLIC OF RAGUSA Isak Beg himself sustained a reverse, and most of Albania was cleared of the Turks.1 But the wars amongst the Slaves made organised resistance impossible, and Sandalj Hranic, whose power now extended throughout Hlum to the borders of Croatia in the north, far into the Zedda in the south, and as far as Podrinje in the east, took the opportunity of the war between
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1904
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of Servia, Melinia, Albania, Chelmo, Doclea, and the maritime region,” 1 made another raid on Ragusan territory, burning the houses, destroying the crops, and murdering many of the inhabitants and making prisoners of others.2 The Venetians, however, came to the rescue, and ordered their Capitano in Golfo, or Admiral of the Adriatic, to remain with the fleet at Ragusa for so long as the city should
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1904
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in Southern Macedonia and Albania held by the Musacchi family and their ally George I. Balsa, he obtained a Turkish contingent for the enterprise, but was defeated by Balsa. In 1376 Tvrtko had allied himself with Knez Lazar, who ruled over the Danubian provinces of Servia (the last remnant of the Servian Empire) against Nicholas Altomanovic, and continued to remain on good terms with him after Nicholas
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1904
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164 THE REPUBLIC OF RAGUSA were at this time extremely disturbed. During the brilliant reign of Stephen Dusan, the Servian people were at the height of their greatness and power. Macedonia, Albania, and other parts of the Greek Empire, and a part of Bosnia, as well as Servia proper, acknowledged the rule of the Servian Tsar, and even Bulgaria paid him tribute. The great position of Servia under
Page 72
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1914
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perchè l’Italia per lasciarla fare domanderebbe compensi. E questi compensi non potrebbero essere, di nuovo, che in Albania o nell’Adriatico settentrionale. Urge dunque dall’Austria di fare che Trieste cessi di essere al più presto italiana, per togliere all’Italia almeno il motivo nazionale e sentimentale delle sue aspirazioni.
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1904
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with their good understanding with the Christian Powers, and they did much business with Constantinople and the rest of the Greek Empire, both by sea and by land. The land trade with the Slavonic hinterland, although subject to frequent interruptions, was still very active, and new and flourishing commercial colonies arose in Bosnia, Hlum, Servia, Albania, and Bulgaria. With Hungary there was a very active

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