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| | Dubrovnik on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The medieval city was a center of south Slavic culture and literature. |
 | | It suffered a severe earthquake in 1667 but retains much medieval architecture, notably its walls and forts, customshouse, mint, 15th-century rector's palace, and Dominican and Franciscan monasteries, with one of the oldest (1317) pharmacies in Europe. |
 | | The city was heavily damaged in fighting that followed Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia in 1991, but much of the damage was repaired, and the tourism industry largely revived, by 2000. |
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