The Republic of Ragusa: An Episode of the Turkish Conquest

by Luigi Villari

[93] Ibid., xxi.

[94] Ibid., xxii.

[95] Gelcich, op. cit., pp. 13, 14.

[96] Peline is Slavonic for sage.

[97] Now included in the Turkish vilayets of Kossovo and Scutari.

[98] William of Tyre speaks of the “Rex Sclavorum” residing at Scutari at the time when the Crusaders were in Dalmatia. This is the Župan Vlkan (1089-1105).

[99] In the plain of Kossovo, near Mitrovica (Mitrovitza).

[100] This etymology is somewhat doubtful. Duša also means the soul.

[101] B. Kállay, Geschichte der Serben; William Miller, The Balkans; F. Kanitz, Serbien.

[102] See ante.