Dubrovnik

Definition: Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Noun

1. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center.

Specialty Definition: Dubrovnik

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dubrovnik (Italian Ragusa, population 43,770 in 2001) is a port and tourist resort in the extreme south of Croatia, in southern Dalmatia, on the Adriatic Sea coast. The old city is a World Heritage Site.

History
Founded in the 7th century AD by Roman refugees, it became an important trading republic in the Middle Ages which connected Latin and Slavic worlds. From its establishment the town was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire. After the Crusades Dubrovnik came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205-1358), and by the Peace Treaty of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom. Having been granted the entire self-government, bound to pay only a tribute to the king and providing assistance with its fleet, Dubrovnik started its life as a free state (Ragusan Republic) that reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1526 Dubrovnik acknowledged the supremacy of the Turkish Sultan (annual tribute was paid to the Sultan). A crisis of Mediterranean shipping and especially a catastrophic earthquake on the April 6 1667. that killed over 5000 citizens, including the Rector, leveling most of the public buildings, ruined the well-being of the Republic. With great effort the Republic recovered a bit, but still remained a shadow of the former Republic.
In 1806, Dubrovnik surrendered to French forces, as that was the only way to cut a month's long siege by the Russian-Montenegrin fleets (during which 3000 cannon balls fell on the city). The French lifted the Russian-Montenegrin fleets and saved Dubrovnik for the time being. The French army, led by Napoleon, entered Dubrovnik in 1806. In 1808 Marshal Marmont abolished the Dubrovnik Republic (est. 15th century). In 1815, by the resolution of Congress of Vienna, Dubrovnik was annexed to Austria (later Austria-Hungary), and remained annexed until 1918. when it became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia from 1929). At the very beginning of the World War II Dubrovnik was first part of the Independent State of Croatia. From April 1941 until September 1943 Dubrovnik was occupied by the Italian army and after that it was occupied by Germans. In October 1944 Partisans liberated Dubrovnik from the Germans. In 1945 Dubrovnik became part of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FNRJ). During the war following Croatia's independence declaration in 1991 the city was under siege from October 1991 until May 1992. The old city was shelled on the December 6 1991 and some buildings suffered minor damage which has since been repaired.
The patron saint of the city is St Blaise (\Sveti Vlaho in Serbian). His statues are seen around the city. It has a importance similar to that of St Mark Evangelist to Venice.
The music group The Dubrovniks owes its name to the origin of the father of one of the members.

External link

Dubrovnik Online, Travel Guide for Dubrovnik and Dubrovnik Region
Grad Dubrovnik - službene stranice-City of Dubrovnik - official web pages
Dubrovnik Summer Festival
Dubrovnik, Konavle, Boka kotorska
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dubrovnik."

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Synonym: Dubrovnik

Synonym: Ragusa (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Dubrovnik

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Biser Jadrana - Dubrovnik (1953)

Dubrovnik (1952)

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Commercial Usage: Dubrovnik

Domain	Title
Books	A Ragusan bride : Dubrovnik to San Francisco (reference) Dubrovnik in the 14th and 15th Centuries: A City Between East and West (reference) Dubrovnik Travel Guide (reference) Quasi One-Dimensional Conductors One: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dubrovnik, Sr Croatia, Sfr Yugoslavia, 1978 (Lecture Notes in phys (reference) Static and Dynamic Properties of Liquids: Proceedings of the International Symposium Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 27-July 2, 1988 (Springer proceeding (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Dubrovnik

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Digital Photo Gallery: Dubrovnik

"Cobblestone street" by Christo Pacheco
Commentary: "Cobblestone street in Dubrovnik, Croatia."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dubrovnik

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Croatia	New air traffic control equipment has been installed in Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik. (references)
	Croatia	Major seaports in Croatia are in Rijeka, Pula, Sibenik, Split, Zadar, Ploce, and Dubrovnik. (references)
	Croatia	Impressive passenger traffic statistics at the major airports (Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik) have already been recorded. (references)
Human Rights	Yugoslavia	In October the Montenegrin Government cooperated in the surrender of General Pavle Strugar, who was indicted by the ICTY for war crimes committed in Dubrovnik in 1999. On June 20, Vladimir Vlahovic, a Montenegrin imprisoned on local court charges for crimes in Bosnia, including murder, rape, kidnap and torture, escaped from prison at year's end he had not been reapprehended. (references)
Travel	Croatia	International flights also service Dubrovnik and Split airports. (references)
	Croatia	The only five-star hotel outside of Zagreb is the Excelsior in Dubrovnik. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Dubrovnik

"Dubrovnik" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Dubrovnik" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	50%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dubrovnik

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dubrovnik croatia	924	dubrovnik hotel palace	4
dubrovnik	618	dubrovnik weather	4
dubrovnik hotel	239	dubrovnik holiday	4
airport dubrovnik	16	dubrovnik festival	4
dubrovnik accommodation	15	croatia dubrovnik hotel in	4
hotel in dubrovnik	13	dalmatia dubrovnik hotel region	4
dubrovnik hotel argentina	13	dubrovnik hotel president	4
map of dubrovnik	12	bellevue dubrovnik hotel	3
dubrovnik picture	10	dubrovnik excelsior	3
apartment dubrovnik	9	dubrovnik online.com	3
dubrovnik excelsior hotel	9	dubrovnik zaton	3
dubrovnik portal	8	dubrovnik festival summer	3
croatia dubrovnik hotel	8	beach dubrovnik	3
dubrovnik estate real	7	dubrovnik gay	3
dubrovnik villa	7	dubrovnik tourism	3
dubrovnik photo	7	accommodation dubrovnik private	3
dubrovnik ferry	6	bari dubrovnik ferry	3
travel to dubrovnik	5	aria.com dubrovnik	3
apartmani dubrovnik	5	dubrovnik polytechnic	3
dubrovnik restaurant	5	dubrovnik property	3
dubrovnik hotel zagreb	5	dubrovnik in weather	3
dubrovnik flight	5
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Misspellings: Dubrovnik

Misspellings
	"Dubrovnik" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dobronica, Dubrovnick. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dubrovnik

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-i-k-n-o-r-u-v"
	-3 letters: bodkin, diuron, durion.
	-4 letters: bound, bourn, bovid, brink, bruin, bunko, burin, drink, drouk, drunk, korun, krubi, robin, round, unbid, vodun.
	-5 letters: bind, bird, birk, bond, bonk, born, brin, brio, bund, bunk, burd, burn, dink, dirk, dork, dour, drib, drub, dunk, durn, duro, ikon, inro, iron, kind, kino, kirn, knob, knur, kudo, nodi, noir.
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