[55] Gelcich, _op. cit._, p. 3. [56] J. C. von Engel, _Geschichte des Freystaates Ragusa_, § 6. [57] Between 1096 and 1105 they had put three hundred ships on the sea (Horatio Brown, _Venice_, p. 87). [58] Serafino Razzi, _Storia di Raugia_. [59] Romanin, _Storia Documentata di Venezia_, tom. viii. p. 455, _seq._; Farlati-Coleti, _Illyricum Sacrum_, vi. 60-80. [60] H. Brown, _op. cit._, p. 101. [61] Spalato, however, remained subject to the empire until Manuel’s death in 1180. [62] In the _Archivio Storico Italiano_, viii. 154, lib. v. [63] This stipulation appears in nearly all the subsequent treaties of dedition by which Ragusa surrendered to Venice. By this act the Ragusan Church came under the authority of a Venetian prelate. [64] By Romania, mediæval historians mean the Eastern Empire. [65] _Liber Pactorum_, ii. p. 117, v. [66] _Op. cit._, cap. 30. [67] Jireček, _op. cit._, p. 12. [68] According to Miklosich, the word is of Arabic origin. [69] Jireček, _op. cit._ [70] Probably this is too early. [71] A _braccio_ is about an ell. [72] Jireček, _ibid._ [73] The name is sometimes spelt Radosav. [74] _Prijeki_ means “beyond” in Serb, and the church was so called because it was beyond the channel. [75] The figures given by Engel (§ 19)—20,000 horse and 30,000 foot—are probably exaggerated. [76] The Three Martyrs of Cattaro were saints murdered by the heathen, or, as some assert, by heretics. [77] The treaty is published in the _Monum. spect. Historiam Slav. Merid._, Agram, vol. i. Document xvii. [78] See _ante_. [79] _Ibid._, xxvi. [80] _Ibid._, xxvii. [81] _Ibid._, xxviii. [82] _Ibid._, xxix. [83] Quoted by Romanin, _op. cit._, _loc. cit._ [84] A further corroboration, if any were needed, of the surrender is found in the treaty of friendship between Stephen, Grand Župan, and Giovanni Dandolo, Count of Ragusa (_Mon. Sl. Mer._, vol. i. doc. xxxix.). No date is given, but it must be previous to 1222, as in that year Stephen received the title of King from Pope Honorius III., whence his designation of _Prvovencani_, or First Crowned. [85] On the sea coast of Montenegro, near the Lake of Scutari. [86] Dated “Ides of January, Indict. I.” (1078). [87] It will be noticed that Ragusa is alluded to first as a bishopric and then as an archbishopric in the same document. [88] Gelcich, _op. cit._, p. 10. [89] A heresy described in a later chapter. [90] Engel, § 20. [91] Gelcich, _Delle Istituzioni Marittime e Secritarie delle Republica di Ragusa_, Trieste, 1892, p. 3. [92] Marcius noster Constantinopolitanus, Vicecomes, _Mon. Sl. Mer._ I., doc. xiv. [93] _Ibid._, xxi. [94] _Ibid._, xxii. [95] Gelcich, _op. cit._, pp. 13, 14. [96] _Peline_ is Slavonic for sage. [97] Now included in the Turkish vilayets of Kossovo and Scutari. [98] William of Tyre speaks of the “Rex Sclavorum” residing at Scutari at the time when the Crusaders were in Dalmatia. This is the Župan Vlkan (1089-1105).