[123] Engel, § 25.
[124] Mentioned by Caroldus and in the Liber Pactorum. The name sounds Ragusan.
[125] Resti, ad ann. 1252. Ragusan writers frequently complain that the Venetians did not protect the city effectually against the Slaves, but it is difficult to see what they could have done against an almost inland state.
[126] This institution is described on pp. 76-78.
[127] In the various histories of Servia (e.g. B. Kállay’s Geschichte der Serben, p. 51) no mention is made of this coalition, and in fact the reign of Stephen Uroš, save for the Mongolian inroads, is described as peaceful. On the other hand, the treaty between Radoslav and Ragusa expressly mentions the alliance with Bulgaria against Servia. Probably the Mongol invasion of 1255 induced him to make peace with his neighbours.
[128] Miklosich, Monumenta Serbica, pp. 60 and 69; translated in Klaić, op. cit., pp. 137, 138.
[129] Uroš was deposed by his son in 1272.
[130] For the position and importance of these envoys see Chap. III.
[131] The chapters relating to the stanicum (stanak in Slavonic) are 19, 20, 49-57. The matter is ably dealt with in an article by Professor V. Bogišić in the Archiv für Slawische Philologie, Berlin, vol ii., 1877, pp. 570-593.
[132] In the Liber Reformationum it is mentioned at rare intervals.