[99] In the plain of Kossovo, near Mitrovica (Mitrovitza). [100] This etymology is somewhat doubtful. Duša also means the soul. [101] B. Kállay, _Geschichte der Serben_; William Miller, _The Balkans_; F. Kanitz, _Serbien_. [102] See _ante_. [103] Klaić, _Geschichte Bosniens_. [104] Klaić, _op. cit._, cap. vi. [105] A treaty between Ragusa and Taddeo, Count of Montefeltro and Podestà of Ravenna and Cervia, 1216-1238 (_Mon. spect. Hist. Slav. Mer._, vol. i. doc. 49, pp. 35, 36; also in other documents of that collection between 1204 and 1226). [106] Resti, who erroneously records the date as 1202. [107] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, vol. i. p. 40. [108] Pisani, _op. cit._, vii. [109] _Op. cit._, p. 29. [110] Venice had received the same prohibition from the Pope. [111] That it was not absolutely free is proved by the Doge Jacopo Ziepolo’s _Promissiom_, dated March 6, 1229, which says: “And we are to receive the tributes of Cherso and Ossero, as well as of the country of Arbe and Ragusa” (Cod. Marc. DLI., class viii. Ital., quoted by Romanin). [112] Binzola Bodazza is always alluded to in this connection as one person, but in other documents, especially in the _Reformationes_, we find the names Binzola and Bodazza as those of two separate noble families. [113] This stipulation is repeated in various subsequent documents, but it was not always observed. [114] Sometimes written _miari_. [115] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 75. [116] We have often quoted this chronicle of “Esadastes,” not because of the value of its arguments, but as characteristic of Ragusan individuality, and of the way in which the Ragusans made every effort to prove and to secure their own independence. They regarded themselves not only as independent of Venice, but as distinct from the rest of Dalmatia, and they were always afraid that the great Republic might one day claim their alligiance. Hence their efforts to prove that that allegiance had never really existed, or at least that it had had no practical effect. [117] _Liber Reform_, ii. 322; _Liber Statutorum_, i. 1, 2; Gelcich, _op. cit._, pp. 30, 31. [118] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 78. This Koloman was evidently the son of Andrew, King of Hungary, by whom he had been appointed Duke (or Count) of Croatia and Dalmatia (1226-1241), Klaić, p. 92. [119] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 79. [120] _Ibid._, i. 80. [121] Klaić, p. 101. [122] Doubtless he had been appointed during the last secession of 1235. [123] Engel, § 25. [124] Mentioned by Caroldus and in the _Liber Pactorum_. The name sounds Ragusan. [125] Resti, _ad ann._ 1252. Ragusan writers frequently complain that the Venetians did not protect the city effectually against the Slaves, but it is difficult to see what they could have done against an almost inland state. [126] This institution is described on pp. 76-78.