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The Legal Position of the Dubrovnik Republic against Turkey in the 15th and Early 16th Century and Its Efforts to Introduce the So-Called “Dubrovnik Duty” in 1521

Publication date: 21.11.2024

Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 343 - 354

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543733XSSB.24.019.20043

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Piotr Wróbel
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1332-4181 Orcid
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The Legal Position of the Dubrovnik Republic against Turkey in the 15th and Early 16th Century and Its Efforts to Introduce the So-Called “Dubrovnik Duty” in 1521

Abstract

The author’s aim was to analyse the legal situation of the Dubrovnik Republic and Dubrovnik merchants operating in the lands subject to the Sultans in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The conclusion was that in the early period the position was secured individually by obtaining salvus conductus. The imposition of vassal status on the Republic by the Turks (finally in 1458) was linked to the necessity of paying tribute, but at the same time there was a uniform regulation of the status of Dubrovnik merchants. During the reigns of Mehmed II and Selim, attitudes towards the Raguzans were hostile (increasing tribute, increasing customs duties) and merchants suffered oppression. The benevolent attitude of the young Suleiman resulted in the institution of the so-called Dubrovnik customs in 1521, whose favourable arrangements became one of the foundations of Raguzan prosperity under the protection of the sultans in the following century.

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    Information: Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 343 - 354

    Article type: Original article

    Authors

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1332-4181

    Piotr Wróbel
    Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1332-4181 Orcid
    All publications →

    Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

    Published at: 21.11.2024

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    Piotr Wróbel, PhD, Professor of the Jagiellonian University, medievalist, researching the history of the Balkans and the Mediterranean countries in the late Middle Ages. Since 1991 employed at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, first in the Department of History Didactics and since 1993 in the Department of Medieval Universal History. In 1997 he defended his doctoral thesis and in 2010 his habilitation thesis at the Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University. From 2008 to 2011 he was the head of the Bachelor’s Degree in Mediterranean Studies; from 2012 he was the head of the Department of Medieval Universal History; from 2012 to 2020 he was the deputy director and from 2020 to 2024 the director of the Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University. Author of monographs: Krzyż i Półksiężyc. Zachodnie Bałkany wobec Turcji w latach 1444–1463 (Kraków 2000); Dubrownik w latach 1358–1526. Organizacja przestrzeni (Kraków 2010). Co-author of translations (with J. Bonarek) Filip de Diversis, Opis Dubrownika (Kraków 2004); Benedykt Cotruglio, Księga o sztuce i handlu (Kraków 2007); Ludwik Tuberon de Crieva, Pamiętniki o czasach moich (Kraków 2016).

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