Thus ends, after more than twelve hundred years, the history of the Republic of Ragusa. Its Government and citizens may have had their defects, but they were full of a real, if somewhat narrow, patriotism. The State conferred a prosperity and happiness on its inhabitants which have fallen to the lot of few peoples during that long and troubled period, while the peculiar, and almost unique, position occupied in European history and polity by the tiny Commonwealth may perhaps justify the appearance of this volume. [Illustration: DALMATIA, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA] LIST OF BOOKS ON THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF RAGUSA BIBLIOGRAPHY G. Valentinelli, _Bibliografia della Dalmazia e del Montenegro_, Zagabria (Agram), 1855-56. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS _Monumenta Ragusina_, edit. Rački and Gelcich, in the “Monumenta Spectantia Historiam Slavorum Meridionalium,” published by the South-Slavonic Academy of Agram, vol. x. &c., 1879 &c. _Diplomatarium relationum Reipublicæ Ragusinæ cum Regno Hungariæ_, edit. Gelcich and Thálloczy, published by the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Budapest, 1887. F. Miklosich, _Monumenta Serbica_, Wien, 1858. Orsat Medo-Počič (Count Pozza), _Spomenici Srpski_, u Beogradu (Belgrad), 1858. Tafel und Thomas, _Griechische Urkunden_, in the Sitzungsberichte der kaiserliche Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historischer Klasse, Wien, 1851. G. Valentinelli, _Esposizione dei Rapporti fra la Repubblica Veneta e gli Slavi Meridionali. Brani tratti dai Diarj di Marin Sanudo_, 1863. A. Theiner, _Vetera Monumenta Slavorum Meridionalium Historiam spectantia_, Romæ, 1863. Rački, _Dubrovački Spomenici_, published by the South-Slavonic Academy in the “Starine” for 1879. CHRONICLES AND GENERAL HISTORIES OF RAGUSA Niccolò Ragnina, _Annali di Ragusa_, and _Annali Anonimi di Ragusa_, published by the South-Slavonic Academy among the Scriptores. Giunio Resti, _Chronica Ragusina_, continued by G. Gondola, published by the South-Slavonic Academy. Serafino Razzi, _La Storia di Raugia_, Lucca, 1588. G. Luccari, _Copioso Ristretto degli Annali di Ragusa_, 1790. J. C. von Engel, _Geschichte des Freystaates Ragusa_, Wien, 1807. F. M. Appendini, _Notizie Istorico-Critiche ... de’ Ragusei_, Ragusa, 1803. Giuseppe Gelcich, _Dello Sviluppo Civile di Ragusa_, Ragusa, 1884. HISTORIES OF OTHER COUNTRIES _Cronache Veneziane Antichissime_, edit. Monticolo, Roma, 1890. Andrea Dandolo, _Chronicon Venetum_, in Muratori’s _Rer. Ital. Script._, tom. xii. Constantine Porphyrogenitus, _De Administrando Imperio_. E. Gibbon, _History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, edit. J. B. Bury, London, 1901. J. B. Bury, _History of the Later Roman Empire_, London, 1887. Romanin, _Storia Documentata di Venezia_, Venezia, 1853. Horatio Brown, _Venice_, London, 1893. F. C. Hodgson, _The Early History of Venice_, London, 1901.