[298] The Slaves used Ragusa as their banking centre. [299] Jireček, p. 36. [300] Gelcich, _Balša_, genealog. table. [301] _Monumenta Histor.-Jurid. Slav. Mer._, i., Agram, 1882. [302] _Mon. Rag._, iii. [303] _Ref._, ii. pp. 276-280; _Lett. e Comm. di Lev._ 1350-80, Aug. 31, 1359; Gelcich, _Balša_, pp. 33-37; _Ref._, iii. 91, 98, 99; iv. 24, 117, 133-4, 139, 140. [304] Now Mičsić, in Montenegro. See Miklosich, _Mon. Serb._, p. 169. [305] Gelcich, _Balša_, p. 38. [306] Gelcich, _Balša_, p. 53. [307] _Diplom. Rag._, 42. [308] Klaić, p. 200; Jireček, pp. 36-37. [309] Klaić, p. 200. [310] Gelcich, _Ragusa_, p. 44. [311] _Ref._, iv., Oct 14, 1378. [312] _Diplom. Rag._, March 13, 1379, No. 62. [313] _Ref._, 1379, June 20 and June 26. [314] Engel, § 32. [315] Razzi, lib. i. cap. xxi. [316] Miklosich, _Mon. Serb._, 184-5. [317] Miklosich, _Mon. Serb._, 188. [318] Klaić, p. 206. [319] Charter dated December 2, 1382, in Miklosich, 201-202. [320] Kukuljevic-Sakcinski, _Jura Regni Croatin_, i. 150-151; Klaić, 209. [321] _Mon. Slav._, iv. 187-8, 194-5, 200-203. [322] July 20, 1385, Klaić, 211. [323] Klaić, 226. [324] Kossovo or Kosovo Polje. [325] Gelcich, _Balša_, 140. [326] The mountainous region behind Cattaro. [327] _Lettere di Levante_, 1403-1410, fol. 78; Gelcich, _Balša_, 162. [328] _Ref._, in _Dipl. Rag._, Sept. 17, 1390, and Jan. 26, 1391. [329] Gelcich, _Balša_, 161-3. [330] _Mon. Slav._, iv. 295, Oct 7, 1392. [331] _Ref._, 1395-7, fol. 75, 78; Gelcich, _Balša_, 174. [332] Gelcich, _Balša_, p. 175. [333] Gelcich, _Balša_, 183. [334] _I.e._ “the Duchy,” from Herzeg or Herzog. [335] _Ref._, in _Dipl. Rag._, March 20, 1392. [336] Hitherto it had only struck copper coins, using foreign silver and gold. Gold coins were never struck at Ragusa. [337] Gelcich, _Balša_, 200-201. [338] Gelcich, _Balša_, 205-306. [339] Klaić, 274. [340] Klaić, 278-9; he deduces this from the letter of the Ragusans to Hrvoje, April 8, 1400, in which they state that Ostoja had protested against their detention of the Turkish envoy. See also Pučić, _Spomenici_, i. 28, and Lucio, _De Regno Dalm. et Croat._, p. 258. [341] A few years before, in 1391, they had received part of Canali, with Dolnja Gora and Soko, from the Paulovići, so that now the territory of the Republic extended from the Narenta to the Bocche di Cattaro. [342] _Diplom. Ragus._, 91-102. [343] _Diplom. Rag._, 95, Nov. 16, 1403. [344] Fejér, _Cod. Dipl._, x. 4, p. 388. [345] Pučić, _Spom._, i. xv; Klaić, 280-290. [346] The Djed or chief priest of the Bogomil community was also present at this Parliament. [347] Pučić, i. 56 and 61. [348] Rački, _Pokret_, Rad. iv., Jugosl. Akad., 85; Klaić, 297. [349] _Ref._ 1407-1411, fol. 245. [350] Gelcich, _Balša_, 271. [351] Gelcich, _Balša_, 294. [352] _Dipl. Ragus._, July 21, 1409. [353] Hrvoje’s shiftiness had at last made him fall into disgrace. [354] Resti, _ad ann._, 1413.