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| | Dubrovnik - Neretva County - Dalmatia Croatia |
 | | On certain sites, these summer houses were built in spectacular rows, like in Rijeka Dubrovacka, on the island of Sipan, in Konavle. |
 | | Many different sovereign and marine powers touched and clashed in this area throughout its turbulent history: Byzantium, the Saracens, Croatia, Normandy, Venice, some small kingdoms and principalities, then the Hungro - Croatian state and through it the Roman - German empire, the Ottoman empire, Habsburgs and Napoleons empire. |
 | | They are renowned in all areas of science, art and culture: the writers Marin Drzic and Ivan Gundulic, doctors Didak Pir and Djuro Baljivi, mathematician Marin Getaldic, economist Beno Kotruljevic, sailor Miho Pracat, philosopher Nikola Gucetic, painters Nikola Bozidarevic and Lovro Dobricevic, theologians the Dominican monk Ivan Stojkovic and the Franciscan Juraj Dragisic. |
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