[23] There is an Albanian tribe of the name of Dukadjin, south of Scutari.
[24] They have not been identified.
[25] In several early accounts it is said that the Saracens helped the Avars to destroy the city by attacking from the sea, but there is no satisfactory evidence on the subject.
[26] Head of a farm; katun in modern Croatian signifies dairy; it is a neo-Latin word.
[27] Venice, whose connection with the Eastern Empire was somewhat similar to that of the Dalmatian cities, now recognised Charlemagne’s supremacy. There was a Byzantine and a Frankish faction. See T. Hodgkin’s “Italy and her Invaders,” viii. p. 231; also H. Brown’s “Venice.”
[28] The passage reads “de ogni Vulasi,” from every Vulasi, but the emendation “de donji Vulasi,” from Lower Vulasi or Wallachia (donji is Slavonic for lower), is suggested.
[29] In Southern Dalmatia the word Morlacco is still a term of contempt.
[30] This etymology is obviously impossible.
[31] The first of these was Otho Ursus or Ottone Orseolo.
[32] Quoted by Gelcich, op. cit., p. 9.