[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.