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!

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...!

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.

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

History episodes leeeetttt's goooooooooooo!

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

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.

Such a beautiful city!

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

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

Fantastic music and video ❤

love this, very informative

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

WOW that fantastic city sharing

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

'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 ,

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

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...

Tsav-tat

That… is a long siege.

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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.

Please stop calling it 'Kavtat'... 🤦‍♂️😂 it's not a hard C, it's more like 'tsavtat'