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A Mediterranean city that you must visit, monument under the UNESCO protection, a city of history and culture, city of countless events, Dubrovnik is all this and more. Archaeological research has confirmed that at the location of the modern city was a settlement way back in the 6th, and probably earlier. During and after the Crusades, Dubrovnik became an important place of traffic between East and West, and in the 12th and 13th century developed as a maritime and commercial center of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. According to The Zadar Peace Treaty from the year 1358, the city is officially released from Venetian influence and dominion, unlike other Dalmatian towns. During the 14th and 15th century Dubrovnik bought various contracts and expanded town territory from Klek in the north, to the area of Boka kotorska Gulf in the south, including the islands of Mljet, Lastovo, Lokrum and Elafite, and with a well-organized transit and trade with the Balkan hinterland, the started building a constitutional position of Dubrovnik Republic – independent choice of rector and councilors, forging their money, their own laws and a right to open consulats abroad. The flag of the Republic of Dubrovnik was determined to be the one with the image of Saint Blaise, patron of Dubrovnik. The relic, head of St. Blase, is worn and worshiped during the procession "Feast of St. Blaise".
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