The History of Dubrovnik & The Republic of Ragusa

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Forest Archaic Collective

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@panzer8as 23 күн бұрын

as a proud native Ragusian, i am impressed with your research and the way you`ve put it down

@ForestArchaicCollective 23 күн бұрын

thks!

@NathanPayne-bm4kk 10 ай бұрын

For anyone looking for more information on specific events relating to the Republic in English, the journal "Dubrovnik Annals" published by the Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik is really good and free to read.

@9and7 6 ай бұрын

I wish other Croats would do the same with their articles and videos. (are you reading Dalmatinska Povijest? Pravaski Odjek?)

@nathanpayne6765 6 ай бұрын

@@9and7 I've not read either of those, no. I tend to stick more strictly do Dubrovnik and the stuff in its old borders.

@NathanPayne-bm4kk 6 ай бұрын

@@nathanpayne6765 (the above is still me, I just forgot to change account)

@Croatian777 4 ай бұрын

the walls built the Nights Templars ,but it was some kind of village-town from the 7th Century , there is another great small but tall up from Herceg Stjepan Kosaca by King Tvrtko ( 1282 ), but the best is in Knin , Croatia its the second biggest fortress in Europe ! MAGiK

@nathanpayne6765 2 ай бұрын

@@Croatian777 What do you mean the walls built the Knights Templar?

@nickmance5957 Жыл бұрын

Nice to put some pictures to a place I've only really heard about. Nice slick narration :)

@drunkngenius Жыл бұрын

This has been on our list for so long! It looks beautiful.

@naomigallant4320 Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful city!

@xJeniee Жыл бұрын

History episodes leeeetttt's goooooooooooo!

@NigelWalker-p5o 8 ай бұрын

A lot of information, nearly all of it unknown to me until now! Excellent photography, and enthusiastic delivery which carried me along.

@EvelynIrwin Жыл бұрын

Fantastic music and video ❤

@lukaz7796 7 ай бұрын

Excellent and accurate review of Dubrovnik's history, congratulations on a very very good job!

@ForestArchaicCollective 7 ай бұрын

thks!

@nhorvath4 6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah! Walking down from the Imperial Fort overlooking the city as I listen to the best English-language account ever put into thirty minutes! I got to stop on the overlooks as you described the stages of wall construction. Perfect length for the walk down too. Thank you thank you thank you!

@ForestArchaicCollective 6 ай бұрын

thats amazing! I'm really glad it made for a good audio guide & thankyou!

@annataranenko10 Жыл бұрын

This is brilliant! Thank you very much, very interesting!

@RumduolAngkor Жыл бұрын

WOW that fantastic city sharing

@apartmentsmiroslavvojnovic3302 8 ай бұрын

So many history in such a 'small' place ❤🏛

@seb-depp Жыл бұрын

Geez, this much info at your talking speed, my ears and mind have to take a coffee break to recover ;-) Very interesting. Too bad I love gothic...

@skampisti3701 6 ай бұрын

There's just something so adventurous and full of life about the adriatic. The stories and events thst come from there are just breathtaking. I would personally love to hear more from it, there isnt much on it online. Cities like kotor or split are breathtaking, straight out of a fairly tale. These masive and irregular land formation towered by mountains... and then it end right in Shkoder, a masive river marks the beginning of a plain and there you get Durres, historically a gem. What a place...!

@ForestArchaicCollective 6 ай бұрын

100% this - it was one of the main incentives for doing the Venetian series Other than these incredible locations we kept stumbling into - i was incredulous that every video, almost everything i would find on the Venetian Republic was 97% City of Venice ...couple of footnotes on the rest of the territories and while sure - if you've not travelled in the Balkans and beyond its a bit of a steep learning curve keeping track of all these places - its an incredible saga, played out over around 1000 years, just irresistable

@ChrisHoerder-qg5mr 8 ай бұрын

This video makes me want to visit! Excellent work putting this together.

@ForestArchaicCollective 8 ай бұрын

thks!

@kaloarepo288 8 ай бұрын

The Italian name for Dubrovnik is replicated by a city with the same name in Sicily - I guess both are of Greek origin? The shipbuilding prowess of the Ragusans led to the English name "argosy" based on their types of ships and this word is employed in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" when they are discussing the mercantile enterprises of one of the characters in the play. And in 1935 a series of books was published under the "argosy" heading which featured the ship in silhouette and presumably the theme of the individual books was one of exploration and adventure - exactly the type of thing Dubrovnik/Ragusan merchants were engaged in back in the time of the republic's glory.

@gabriel2d 8 ай бұрын

love this, very informative

@9and7 6 ай бұрын

'In the Institute of Historical Sciences HAZU in Dubrovnik, the book of Brother Luka Vladimirović, An Account of the Beginning of the Bosnian Kragliestva from 1775, owned by the Franciscan monastery in Karin, was found. The monastery was destroyed in 1993 during the Serbian occupation of that part of Croatia and its library burned down, so the book found in Dubrovnik is the only preserved copy of this once rich library. On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, the head of the Institute, academic Nella Lonza, handed over the book to the guardian of the monastery, Fr Petar Klarić.' -Dubrovnik Annals ,

@bubee8123 4 ай бұрын

What a great video. All the facts presented well. I am by no means an expert, but I did not find any mistakes.

@ForestArchaicCollective 4 ай бұрын

really appreciate it! thanku

@davidhands6883 2 ай бұрын

Very good video, but it would have great if you had continued into the 20th century

@JoeGallantChurchComms Жыл бұрын

That… is a long siege.

@yan2pineda Жыл бұрын

🤩🤩🤩

@stuh9584 6 ай бұрын

Tsav-tat

@markokrezo1377 Жыл бұрын

Not sure where you got your information from... Croatians had been there from 500/700 Ad and defended Dubrovnik from the Arabs in 700/800 Ad and from the Bulgarians, Germans, Hungarians, Austrians, Venetians and Ottoman Turks after that. It was impenetrable until Napolean, who conquered it and was so impressed with the Croatian soldiers he stated that "If I had 100,000 Croatian Soldiers I would conquer the world'. Western historians always name the towns in the Greek or Latin, but forget that the Croatians who were in ancestry ancient Medes with Aboriginal Europeans ancient Illyirians, defended there land.

@kaloarepo288 8 ай бұрын

I have an Iranian friend who belongs to the ancient Persian religion of Zoroaster who told me that as a result of the Arab invasion of his country whole tribes were displaced who fled west and eventually formed the nucleus of the Croatian nation though I have never read any historical justification for this claim. Medes of course were ancient Iranians.

@donaldmoss3326 5 ай бұрын

People of Dalmatia Never did nor ever will feel anything but CROATIAN. Roman? Are you for real?

@tomislavbatinic9605 4 ай бұрын

FIrst there were Illyrians (Delmati,Liburni), Greeks, Romans and than Croats but modern Dalmatia that today you can see is almost all bulit by Croats only Old parts of cities like Split and Zadar still have some Roman/Greek heritage but all rest is done by Croatians. Also this documentary talks about Dubrovnik which was almost exclusively bulit by Croats considering in Illyrian/Greek/Roman times Dubrovnik was basically nothing but port for ships and very small comune.

@donaldmoss3326 4 ай бұрын

@@tomislavbatinic9605 thank you for this info,

@myxa92 2 ай бұрын

Dalmatia had a large Italian population until 1947, hence why the cities; original names are Ragusa, Spalato, Trau, Zara, Pola, Rovigno, etc. Then they were all killed or expelled. Dubrovnik was one of those cities whose elite was Italian or Dalmatian speaking, hence why it was called Ragusa. But after a massive earthquake in 1667 the city was resettled with slavs and they became the majority. Then in the 1880s, you had rioting by croats backed by Austria against the remaining Italians, then the world wars finished off the rest.

@donaldmoss3326 2 ай бұрын

@@myxa92 becouse the Dalmatians who are Croatians were historcally opressed by Italians. so many prominent Croatians of that time had to Italianize their names in order to work in their feild of expertiese. so it was for the names of thenDalmatian cities,

@myxa92 2 ай бұрын

@@donaldmoss3326 This is false. 1) Dalmatia was ~35% Italian in 1815 2) The Dalmatian cities’ names are attested in Italian and Dalmatian and before that Latin (most of them are near-identical) way before the Croats were even in the area we call Croatia. 3)There was Italianization, but it was mostly voluntary by Croats who wanted to enter the Ragusan nobility. The forced Italianization you speak of was under fascist period, which is a completly different animal. 4) Croats were banned from living inside Ragusa itself due to fears of demographic replacement, and Ragusan writers like Elio Cerva, lamented their growing numbers within the republic. They were only let in when the nobility had no choice. 5) Italian remained the language of the elite to the very end as evidenced by the fact that Ragusa’s mayors were all Italian until 1889 when the Austrians in a bid to de-Italianize Dalmatia gave the Croats political power, which they went on to wield against the remaining Italian population, which mostly slavicized or left. Disclaimer: I’m American, and have no dog in this fight. These are just the facts.