Ragusan

‘Non, he speaks Ragusan and this one speaks Modica Altan.’

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Their rights and privileges were respected, the law was enforced, commerce prospered, good roads were constructed, and the great caravans of the Ragusan merchants traversed the country.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Ragusan brig, which had arrived there from Marseilles, that the French fleet sailed from Toulon the 30th of March, having a great number of troops on board.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

Cagliari; and informed his lordship, that the Ragusan consul had received a letter from St. Pierre's, giving him an account, brought by a

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

Catholics -- descendants of Ragusan emigrants of the Middle Ages -- had secured the former Orthodox church of St. Demetrius, in which church, by the way, the services had come to be held in Albanian.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

It had lost its ethnic meaning and among the Ragusan poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the word was used to signify a shepherd.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

It is superfluous to make a catalogue of those Ragusan writers who were more or less successful in purging their Slav language of

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

A Ragusan gave me her grandfather's account of the yelling horde of savage mountaineers who rushed into battle with the decapitated heads of their foes dangling from their necks and belts, sparing no one, pillaging and destroying, and enraging the Russian officers by rushing home so soon as they had secured booty worth carrying off.

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

Thus, as early as the fourteenth century the Ragusan fleet was the envy of the world; its vessels were then known as Argusas to British mariners, and the English word "Argosy" is probably derived from the name.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885

Edwards brought to London a Ragusan youth named Pasqua Rosee, who prepared this drink for him daily.

Royalty Restored 1883