Fort Bokar and the Plia Gate are a part of the giant stone walls that encircle this maritime city, originally designed to stave off Ottoman attack.
This city witnessed an earthquake in 1667, which caused turmoil amongst its aristocracy - the Sorgi remained its principal family, but all of its key buildings were leveled except the Rector Palace and the Sponza Palace. This city became a prosperous semi-independent republic after it was acquired under the Treaty of Zadar in 1358 by Louis I of Hungary. A legend holds that St. Blaise appeared to a local priest in a dream here, and stopped a siege of this city in 948 CE. Fort Bokar and the Plia Gate are a part of the giant stone walls that encircle this maritime city, originally designed to stave off Ottoman attack. Known as the Republic of Ragusa in the 14th century, this city saw another siege when it was shelled by Serbian bombers in 1991. FTP, name this city on the Dalmatian coast, a hotspot for tourists, which is found across its namesake isthmus at the southern tip of Croatia.
This city witnessed an earthquake in 1667, which caused turmoil amongst its aristocracy - the Sorgi remained its principal family, but all of its key buildings were leveled except the Rector Palace and the Sponza Palace.
{Dubrovnik} (or {Ragusa} before that word is said, or {Argosy})