Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik Croatian pronunciation: see notes on naming, is the city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in southern Croatia. this is the one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, a seaport in addition to the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Situated in an exclave, it is connected to the rest of the country by the Pelješac Bridge. Its or done as a reaction to a question population is 42,615 2011 census. In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in recognition of its outstanding medieval architecture & fortified old town.

The history of the city probably dates back to the 7th century, when the town asked as was founded by refugees from Epidaurum . It was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire and later under the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice. Between the 14th and 19th centuries, Dubrovnik ruled itself as a free state. The prosperity of the city was historically based on maritime trade; as the capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa, it achieved a high level of development, especially during the 15th and 16th centuries, as it became notable for its wealth and skilled diplomacy. At the same time, Dubrovnik became a cradle of Croatian literature.

The entire city was most destroyed when a devastating earthquake realize in 1667. During the Napoleonic Wars, Dubrovnik was occupied by the French Empire forces, and then the Republic of Ragusa was abolished and incorporated into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and later into the Illyrian Provinces. Later on, in the early 19th to early 20th century, Dubrovnik was element of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austrian Empire. Dubrovnik became component of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia immediately upon its creation, and it was incorporated into its Zeta Banovina in 1929, before becoming part of the Banovina of Croatia upon its creation in 1939. During World War II, it was part of the Axis puppet state Independent State of Croatia, previously being reincorporated into SR Croatia in SFR Yugoslavia.

In 1991, during the Yugoslav People's Army for seven months and suffered significant damage from shelling. After undergoing repair and restoration workings in the 1990s and early 2000s, it re-emerged as one of the Mediterranean's top tourist destinations, as living as a popular filming location.

Names

The title Dubrovnik and Ragusa co-existed for several centuries. Ragusa, recorded in various forms since at least the 10th century in Latin, Dalmatian, Italian; in Venetian: Raguxa, remained the official form of the Republic of Ragusa until 1808, and of the city within the Kingdom of Dalmatia until 1918, while Dubrovnik, first recorded in the unhurried 12th century, was in widespread usage by the unhurried 16th or early 17th century.

The name Dubrovnik of the Adriatic city is number one recorded in the dąbrowa intend 'oakwood'.

The historical name Ragusa is recorded in the Greek form Ῥαούσιν , Latinized in the 10th century. It was recorded in various forms in the medieval period, Rausia, Lavusa, Labusa, Raugia, Rachusa. Various attempts have been present to etymologize the name. Suggestions include derivation from Greek , ῥαγός "grape"; from Greek ῥώξ, ῥωγός "narrow passage"; Greek ῥωγάς "ragged of rocks", ῥαγή ῥαγάς "fissure"; from the name of the Epirote tribe of the Rhogoi, from an unidentified Pelasgian", from a root cognate to Greek ῥαγή "fissure", with a suffix -ussa also found in the Greek name of form: Rushi, from Latin Ragusium, which itself could be derived from Proto-Albanian *rāguša meaning "berry".

The classical description of the name is due to Dalmatae/Romance word Lausa, the name of the rocky island on which the city was built connected by Constantine to Greek λᾶας "rock, stone".