Ragusa (Nation) AKA Republic of
Ragusa
1444 AD
AKA Republic of
The Republic of Ragusa was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian, German and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in South Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808.
It reached its commercial peak in the 15th and the 16th centuries, before being conquered by Napoleon's French Empire and formally annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1808.
It had a population of about 30,000 people, of whom 5,000 lived within the city walls.
Its motto was "Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro", a Latin phrase which means "Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world"
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Attachments
Borders of the Republic of Ragusa from 1426 (encompassing also the area labelled "Neum" until 1718)
