See also Republic of Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik was founded by joining two small towns: Laus, a town on a small island off the southern Dalmatian coast, which provided shelter for the Italic refugees from the nearby city of Epidaurum (today Cavtat); and Dubrava, a settlement of Slavic immigrants at the foot of the forested Srđ hill.
The strip of wetland between the two parts of the town, was reclaimed as a landfill in 12th century, unifying the city around the newly made plaza (today Placa or StradunSee also:
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty.
1996 - Events.
January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100.
January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...
Adnan Terzic
Bosnia and Herzegovina (locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, most commonly abbreviated as BiH) is a country in south-east Europe with an estimated population of between three and four million people. The country is the homeland of its three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. Other communities that live there are not given the status of being "constituent"[1]. A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
Bosnian War (also: War in Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a common name for an international conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 6, 1992 to September 14, 1995. In a war that lasted little more than three years, according to original estimates there were about 200,000 killed and about 2 million displaced people. According to more recent reports there were 105,000 killed and 1.8 million displaced people by this war. The war was caused by a complex combination of political, social and security crisis that foll ...
An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specialising in growing conifers is known as a pinetum.
The term 'arboretum' was first used in an English publication by J. C. Loudon in 1833 in The Gardener's Magazine but the concept was already long-established by then. Commenting on Loddiges' famous Hackney Botanic Garden arboretum, begun in 1816, and opened free to the public for educat ...
Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria: Roman Catholicism is the third largest religious congregation in Bulgaria after Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam. In the census of 2001, a total of 43,811 people declared themselves to be Roman Catholics, down from 53,074 in the previous census of 1992 due to a general Europe-wide decline in religious membership. The vast majority of the Catholics in Bulgaria in 2001 were ethnic Bulgarians, although 2,500 of them were Turks and additional 2,000 belonged to a number of other ethnic groups. The Bulgarian Cathol ...
For the Boston area punk band see Siege (band). For the James Mason book see Siege (book)
A siege is a prolonged military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that refuses to surrender and cannot be easily taken by a frontal assault. Sieges usually involve surrounding the target and blocking the provision of supplies, typically coupled with siege engines, artillery bombardment or sapping (als ...
1526 in science
1526 - Events.
January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.
May 22 - Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.
July 24 - Milan is captured by the Spanish.
August 29 - Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I ...
In several forms of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. St. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters, and St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, for example. Eastern Orthodoxy generally doesn't associate saints with occupations and activities, or does so to a much lesser degree.
Patron saints can also be associated with geographical areas: St. Joseph is the patron saint of Belgium, and St. Patrick is patron saint of Ireland, fo ...
Zagreb (pronounced: [ˈzɑː.greb]) is the capital city of Croatia. The city's population was 779,145 in 2001. It is situated between the southern slopes of Medvednica mountain and the northern bank of the Sava river, it is 120 m above sea level, located at 45°48′N 15°58′E.
Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic ...
December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining.
December 6 - Events.
963 - Leo VIII is elected Pope.
1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is ...
The Adriatic Sea (Italian Mare Adriatico, German Adriatisches Meer or Adria, Croatian Jadransko more or Jadran) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges.
The western coast is Italian, while the eastern coast runs along the countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Albania. Domenico and Blaz are the onl ...
Quarantine is enforced isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous (often disease). The word comes from the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning forty days.
Quarantine is also used as a general term for blockading (such as the naval blockade during the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s) or for denying access systematically to a resource. In computer sciences, it is used to name the procedure of isolation of computer viruses into a special directory, until something can be done about it withou ...
Croatia Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Croatia, based in Zagreb. It operates services to domestic and international destinations. Its main base is Zagreb Airport (ZAG).
Croatia Airlines - History.
The airline was established on 20 July 1989 as Zagal - Zagreb Airlines, and started operations using Cessna 402 aircraft on cargo services for the UPS. The company used the name Zagal for short. After the first democratic elections held in Croatia, Zagal changed i ...
The Republic of Croatia is a crescent-shaped country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991. It is a candidate for membership of the European Union.
Croatia - Name.
Croatia is the Latinized version of the native name of the country: Hrvatska. The letter "r" in the first syllable "hrv" is rolled or continuant, which is a linguistic trait ...
A defensive wall is a fortification used to defend a city from potential aggressors. In ancient to modern times, they were used to enclose settlements. Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China and the Atlantic Wall, which extended far beyond the borders of a city and were used to enclose vast regions.
Walls are usually made of stone or clay and are generally as tall as a man's own height, although oftentimes much taller. Depending ...
The Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. It is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem.
Croatian is based on the Štokavian dialect (with some influence from Čakavian and Kajkavian) and written with the Latin alphabet.
The modern Croatian standard language is a continuous outgrowth of more than nine hundred years of literature written in a mixture of Croatian Church Slavonic and the vernacular language. If the sub ...
Serbian culture refers to the culture of Serbia as well as the culture of Serbians in other parts of the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere in the world. It has a strong influence from the peasantry especially in its arts, crafts and music. The nearby Byzantine Empire had a strong influence in the Middle Ages while the Serb Orthodox Church has had an enduring influence. Serbian culture fell into decline during five centuries of rule under the Ottoman Empire. Following autonomy and eventual independence in the Nineteenth Century, there wa ...
The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place every second year. Prior to World War II the event was occasionally held annually. There was also an "unofficial" series of Chess Olympiads which ended in 1976. Chess is not included as one of the recognised Olympic sports, however FIDE is now a member of the International Olympic Committee, adhering to its rules, which means it may become an Olympic event some day in the future.
The trophy for the w ...
Tvrdos (Тврдош) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the city of Trebinje, Republika Srpska. The 4th-century foundations of the first Roman church on the site may be seen by tourists to this day. The Orthodox monastery was established there in the 15th century, with a cathedral constructed about 1508 and painted with murals by Vicko Lavrov from Dubrovnik in 1517. The cloister remained a seat of the Metropolitans of Herzegovina until the Turks destroyed it in 1694. The current buil
