DUBROVNIK
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- Distance
- 3.65 mi
- Elevation gain
- 617 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 617 ft
- Max elevation
- 243 ft
- TrailRank
- 34
- Min elevation
- -20 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1238
- Uploaded
- September 26, 2016
- Recorded
- September 2016
near Ploče, Dubrovačko-Neretvanska (Hrvatska)
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NB parking in the city is very expensive. If there is room I recommend doing it for free at the starting point of this itinerary.
from wikipedia
Ragusa [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (AFI: / raˈɡuza / [7] [8], in Croatian Dubrovnik [9] [10], in Italian also Dubrovnik of Dalmatia and, for use ancient, Ragusi, Rausa, Raugia and Ragugia [8]) is a city in southern Croatia of 42 641 inhabitants, capital of the Ragusa-Nararean Region and overlooking the Adriatic Sea, in southern Dalmatia. The city, which has long maintained its independence, boasts a historic center of particular historical and cultural importance, which is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and which has earned it the nickname "Pearl of the Adriatic".
The city was originally founded on a rocky island with the name of Ragusium in the first half of the 7th century by inhabitants of the nearby town of Epidaurum (nowadays Old Ragusa, which is 18 km from Ragusa) fleeing from the invasions of the Slavs and the Avari. After the fall of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade (1204), Ragusa came under the rule of the Republic of Venice, albeit with brief interruptions, until 1358, when it gained independence. During the period of belonging to the Republic of Venice, Ragusa borrowed its institutional structure from the latter. From that year it became the capital of an independent maritime republic, the Republic of Ragusa, until the arrival of Napoleon's troops in 1808, after which it was first annexed to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and subsequently to the Illyrian Provinces.
Definitely assigned to the Austrian Empire with the Congress of Vienna (1815), Ragusa was integrated into the Kingdom of Dalmatia, under the direct dominion of the Habsburgs. In 1919, after the events related to the First World War, including the disintegration of the Austrian Empire, Ragusa passed to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the subsequent Croatian War of Independence, Ragusa became part of the new independent state of Croatia.
Touched at the peak of its economic and social development between the 15th and 16th centuries, Ragusa has greatly influenced the development of Croatian literature, becoming a reference point for poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars. Thanks to its centuries-old history, which has also left an important architectural and artistic presence, Ragusa has become one of the main tourist destinations of the Adriatic, as evidenced also by the type of traffic that passes through its seaport, which is mainly cruise ship. without source]
Origins of the name
Ragusa with Monte Sergio at its back. The Croatian name of the city derives from the forest of oaks that once covered the mountain, while the Italian one is a corruption of the Latin term "lau", or "the rock", with a reference to the presence in its surroundings, in historical times, of a deep cliff
Over time the city's novel name, dating back to the 7th century, was written in various ways, all derived from the same root: Lausa, Labusa, Raugia, Rausia, Rachusa and finally Ragusa. Regarding the etymology of the name Ragusa, a famous passage by Costantino Porfirogenito explains that:
«[...] In the language of the Romans, the city of Ragusa is not called Ragusa, but, since it is located at the top of the hills, in the Roman idiom it is called lau," the cliff ", so that the inhabitants are called" Lausaioi ", that is" those who live on the cliff ". But the vulgar custom, which often corrupts the names by altering their letters, has changed this name, and calls them "Rausaioi". [...] »
(Costantino Porfirogenito [15])
The Slavic name Dubrovnik derives from the Croatian term dubrava, which means oak forest. These trees once covered the mountain of San Sergio (in Croatian Srđ). The name Dubrovnik appeared for the first time in a commercial treaty between the Banat of Bosnia and the Republic of Ragusa of 29 August 1189, known as the Carta del bano Kulin, from the name of the then lord of Bosnia.
The name Ragusa was the official name until the seventies of the nineteenth century, used exclusively also by the great majority of the geographical and historical texts of Western Europe and in nautical maps. From that period, the official name became bilingual: Ragusa - Dubrovnik. At the end of the Austro-Hungarian domination over Dalmatia and the insertion of the city in the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (de facto since 1918, while de jure from the following year) the only official name became the Croatian of Dubrovnik, now used in almost exclusive way in almost all languages.
Even in the Italian language texts the latter name began to prevail, so that in the nineties public figures such as Federico Zeri [16], Indro Montanelli and Claudio Magris [17] invited not to abandon the toponym Ragusa. The name of the city when it comes to the ancient Republic of Ragusa, however, has remained predominantly the ancient one, but the term Dubrovačka Republika (Republic of Dubrovnik) is used in Croatian-language publications.
The Italian Foreign Ministry, in the decree establishing an honorary consulate in the Dalmatian city dated 23 July 2007, used for the first time the double name Ragusa / Dubrovnik [18].
from wikipedia
Ragusa [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (AFI: / raˈɡuza / [7] [8], in Croatian Dubrovnik [9] [10], in Italian also Dubrovnik of Dalmatia and, for use ancient, Ragusi, Rausa, Raugia and Ragugia [8]) is a city in southern Croatia of 42 641 inhabitants, capital of the Ragusa-Nararean Region and overlooking the Adriatic Sea, in southern Dalmatia. The city, which has long maintained its independence, boasts a historic center of particular historical and cultural importance, which is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and which has earned it the nickname "Pearl of the Adriatic".
The city was originally founded on a rocky island with the name of Ragusium in the first half of the 7th century by inhabitants of the nearby town of Epidaurum (nowadays Old Ragusa, which is 18 km from Ragusa) fleeing from the invasions of the Slavs and the Avari. After the fall of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade (1204), Ragusa came under the rule of the Republic of Venice, albeit with brief interruptions, until 1358, when it gained independence. During the period of belonging to the Republic of Venice, Ragusa borrowed its institutional structure from the latter. From that year it became the capital of an independent maritime republic, the Republic of Ragusa, until the arrival of Napoleon's troops in 1808, after which it was first annexed to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and subsequently to the Illyrian Provinces.
Definitely assigned to the Austrian Empire with the Congress of Vienna (1815), Ragusa was integrated into the Kingdom of Dalmatia, under the direct dominion of the Habsburgs. In 1919, after the events related to the First World War, including the disintegration of the Austrian Empire, Ragusa passed to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the subsequent Croatian War of Independence, Ragusa became part of the new independent state of Croatia.
Touched at the peak of its economic and social development between the 15th and 16th centuries, Ragusa has greatly influenced the development of Croatian literature, becoming a reference point for poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars. Thanks to its centuries-old history, which has also left an important architectural and artistic presence, Ragusa has become one of the main tourist destinations of the Adriatic, as evidenced also by the type of traffic that passes through its seaport, which is mainly cruise ship. without source]
Origins of the name
Ragusa with Monte Sergio at its back. The Croatian name of the city derives from the forest of oaks that once covered the mountain, while the Italian one is a corruption of the Latin term "lau", or "the rock", with a reference to the presence in its surroundings, in historical times, of a deep cliff
Over time the city's novel name, dating back to the 7th century, was written in various ways, all derived from the same root: Lausa, Labusa, Raugia, Rausia, Rachusa and finally Ragusa. Regarding the etymology of the name Ragusa, a famous passage by Costantino Porfirogenito explains that:
«[...] In the language of the Romans, the city of Ragusa is not called Ragusa, but, since it is located at the top of the hills, in the Roman idiom it is called lau," the cliff ", so that the inhabitants are called" Lausaioi ", that is" those who live on the cliff ". But the vulgar custom, which often corrupts the names by altering their letters, has changed this name, and calls them "Rausaioi". [...] »
(Costantino Porfirogenito [15])
The Slavic name Dubrovnik derives from the Croatian term dubrava, which means oak forest. These trees once covered the mountain of San Sergio (in Croatian Srđ). The name Dubrovnik appeared for the first time in a commercial treaty between the Banat of Bosnia and the Republic of Ragusa of 29 August 1189, known as the Carta del bano Kulin, from the name of the then lord of Bosnia.
The name Ragusa was the official name until the seventies of the nineteenth century, used exclusively also by the great majority of the geographical and historical texts of Western Europe and in nautical maps. From that period, the official name became bilingual: Ragusa - Dubrovnik. At the end of the Austro-Hungarian domination over Dalmatia and the insertion of the city in the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (de facto since 1918, while de jure from the following year) the only official name became the Croatian of Dubrovnik, now used in almost exclusive way in almost all languages.
Even in the Italian language texts the latter name began to prevail, so that in the nineties public figures such as Federico Zeri [16], Indro Montanelli and Claudio Magris [17] invited not to abandon the toponym Ragusa. The name of the city when it comes to the ancient Republic of Ragusa, however, has remained predominantly the ancient one, but the term Dubrovačka Republika (Republic of Dubrovnik) is used in Croatian-language publications.
The Italian Foreign Ministry, in the decree establishing an honorary consulate in the Dalmatian city dated 23 July 2007, used for the first time the double name Ragusa / Dubrovnik [18].
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