[227] For this route see Benedetto Ramberti, _Libri. Tre delle cosi dei Turchi_, lib. i. [228] There is still a village of that name. [229] Mostar did not exist in the Middle Ages. The ruins of Blagaj still form an imposing mass. [230] The seat of feudal family of the Pavlovići in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. [231] _Srebro_ = silver in Servian. [232] Slav. S. Dimitri, Dimitrovica, or Mitrovica. [233] Jireček, _op. cit._, pp. 75-82. [234] Zenta or Zedda was the name of a district comprising Montenegro and that part of Albania between the lake of Scutari and the Adriatic coast as for as Durazzo. The anonymous writer in Matković (_Starine_ x., 1878, of the South-Slavonic Academy) describes the _Via de Zenta_. [235] _Op. cit._, p. 63. [236] Ulcinium, Dulcinium; in Slavonic, Olgun; in Albanian, Ulkin. [237] On the site of San Sergio is the village of Obotti, which has of late acquired some prominence since an Italian steamship company has established a service up the Bojana for developing Italian trade. An Austrian company has imitated its example, and it seems as if there was a chance of reviving the old trade routes once more although of course they can never regain their old importance so long as the Turks continue to misgovern the land. [238] 1290. Jireček, _op. cit._, p. 65. [239] Lissos, Alexium, in Slavonic and Albanian Lješ. [240] Jireček, pp. 66-7; this is now the Mirdit country. [241] The name Πριξδριάνα is first mentioned as a Bulgarian bishopric in 1026. [242] Jireček, p. 68. The Beglerbeg of Rumelia was the commander-in-chief of the Turkish armies in Europe. [243] The Servian king imitated the Venetian ducats, but with a considerable amount of base metal, whence Dante’s allusion to the punishment awaiting “quel di Rascia, che mal aggiustò il conio di Vinegia,” _Paradiso_, xix. 140-141. [244] Ragusan consul at Brskovo mentioned in 1280. Its importance ceased with the Turkish conquest. [245] Jireček, p. 71, Bolizza. [246] Critobulus, ii. 7, 8, in _Fragm. Hist. Græca_, v. 109. [247] First mentioned in 1349. [248] First mentioned in 1376. [249] Mentioned in 1412. [250] Mentioned in 1346. [251] Mentioned in 1350. [252] Jireček, _op. cit._, 41-58. A very elaborate and interesting account of the Bosnian and Servian mines is given in this work. [253] This division is reflected in the prefixes Gornji and Donji (upper and lower), which are frequently found attached to the names of Bosnian and Servian towns. [254] According to Farlati, it is owing to the Ragusans that some traces of Latin Christianity survived in these lands of schism and heresy. [255] _Purgari_ is evidently derived from the German word _Bürger_, but the etymology of _Vaoturchi_ is unknown (Jireček). [256] _Lib. Ref._, March 8, 1332, p. 341. [257] Miklosich, _Monumenta Serbica_, Codice Geno (Ragusa); Jireček, _op. cit._, p. 60. [258] Jireček, _op. cit._, 60; Nicolas de Nicolay, _Navigations et peregrinations orientales_, Lyon, 1568.