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Dubrovnik's history




There are several theories on the establishment of Dubrovnik (Latin Ragusa), a widely accepted is that the city founded in the 7th century, when the Latins from the city Epidaurum (today's Cavtat), the shelter before the invasion of Avars and Slavs in the rock Laus, which means rock. 
When the 1815th officially ceased to exist Dubrovnik Republic, its territory was annexed Dalmatia, where it is culturally and historically have always belonged. She, together with the Croatian and did the Triple Kingdom of Slavonia Croatian, Dalmatia and Slavonia, which was until 1918. was part of Austro-Hungary.







