[63] This stipulation appears in nearly all the subsequent treaties of dedition by which Ragusa surrendered to Venice. By this act the Ragusan Church came under the authority of a Venetian prelate.
[64] By Romania, mediæval historians mean the Eastern Empire.
[65] Liber Pactorum, ii. p. 117, v.
[66] Op. cit., cap. 30.
[67] Jireček, op. cit., p. 12.
[68] According to Miklosich, the word is of Arabic origin.
[69] Jireček, op. cit.
[70] Probably this is too early.
[71] A braccio is about an ell.
[72] Jireček, ibid.