While besieged by Stjepan Kosača ("styeh-pahn ko-sah-chah") in 1451, this city offered 15,000 ducats, a castle, and a hereditary lordship to anyone who killed him, scaring Kosača into lifting the siege.
While besieged by Stjepan Kosača ("styeh-pahn ko-sah-chah") in 1451, this city offered 15,000 ducats, a castle, and a hereditary lordship to anyone who killed him, scaring Kosača into lifting the siege. This city sold a 12 mile piece of land containing the city of Neum in 1699, which now comprises one country's only access to the sea. The city of Lausa was incorporated into this city when they were connected by the Stradun. Auguste de Marmont was appointed duke of this city in 1808 for pacifying it and the surrounding region for Napoleon. This city was under (*) Venetian suzerainty from the early 13th century until relinquished to Hungary in a treaty named for the nearby city of Zadar. For 10 points, name this Croatian city, the center of the Republic of Ragusa.
While besieged by Stjepan Kosača ("styeh-pahn ko-sah-chah") in 1451, this city offered 15,000 ducats, a castle, and a hereditary lordship to anyone who killed him, scaring Kosača into lifting the siege.
Dubrovnik (accept Ragusa before mentioned)