Legato said:
Arya this place in Croatia looks really nice maybe I should go for one of my long walks over there.
Ha ha!
True... but not only Dubrovnik but Split too! Dioklecian palace is werry famouse! Yust say if you want to know... about it! Word.. all I nead!
Maciamo said:
But isn't it a village then ? Does Hum have any claim to being a town/city ?
Look at this!
The Guinness Book of World Records lists HUM (with a population of
three families) which is in Istria, Croatia; as the smallest town in
the world.Today Hum is a memorial town, it is one of the few examples of the
urban development which is completely situated inside the walls of the
early Middle Ages. Hum got its present appearance in basic outlines already in the Middle Ages, in 11th century. It was then that on the remnants of an old fortification a Hum castle was built and next to it the first row of the future town窶冱 houses. At the time Istria belonged to the Empire of the Francs. As a part of the Empire, in 1040 it became a particular county.Ulrich I then reconstructs and builds a row of castles, among which is also the one in Hum. It was in 1102 that Ulrich II gave Hum along with several other castles as a feud to Aquilean patriarch.In the deed of gift it says it is a 窶彡astrum Cholm窶 (according to the old Croatian form Hlm) and that is the first time Hum is mentioned in its long history. With this act the history of Hum as a fortification actually begins. In the later historic sources up to XVII century Hum is mentioned as a 窶彡astrum窶? a fortification as a matter of fact, which emphasizes its role as a fortification.Today Hum is a memorial town, it is one of the few examples of the urban development which is completely situated inside the walls of the early Middle Ages. During almost the whole millenium, from XI till now, almost nothing has been built in Hum outside the town walls. Hum remained inside the frontiers which were set already in the early Middle Ages. Hum Castle was situated on the plateau on the western part of the town inside the defense walls, on the place where now the parish church in part, the parish castle and the extreme western part of the northern row of houses are situated. The ground-plan of the castle had the shape of a square of the size 35x30 m.
This is a picture of Glagolitic alphabet:
I don't know what to say else... it's the way it is....
Beowulf is an Anglo-saxon story (so from England).
True..... and not true.... it was writen in England but it was made in Denmark! Read it!
Incidentally, I have never been to Denmark (or Croatia).
I really do't understand what did you write here! Denmark or Croatia? u now it isn't same country.
But if you made yust example.... than O.K. ☝
About Croatia, I wonder, why none of you mentioned Dubrovnik. I thought that's the most famous place.
My bad, man!
Dubrovnik was founded in the first half of the 7th century by a group of refugees from Epidaurum (today's Cavtat). They established their settlement at the island and named it Laus. Slavs developed their own settlement under the name of Dubrovnik (named by "Dub" - type of wood). The settlements were separated by a channel which was filled in 12th century, present Placa or Stradun, and since than the two settlements have been united. At that time the city walls started to be built as a protection from different enemies ( Arabs, Venetian, Macedonians, Serbs, etc.), who wanted to conquer Dubrovnik.The Republican Constitution of Dubrovnik was strictly aristocratic. The head of the state was the Duke, elected for a term of office for one month. While the Republic was under the rule of Venice the Rector was Venetian, but after 1358 the Rector was always a Ragusan.
The length of the Rector's service was only one month and a person was eligible for reelection after two years. The rector lived and worked in Rector's Palace but his family remained living in their own house.
The government of the Republic was liberal in character and early showed its concern for justice and humanitarian principles, e.g. slave trading was abolished since 1418. Dubrovnik started its life as a free state 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 6th of April 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 Marmot abolished the Dubrovnik Republic.
Ivan Gundulić, the greatest Croatian 17th century writer, predicted the downfall of the great Turkish Empire in his great poem Osman. As freedom was regarded as the greatest value to Dubrovnik, he wrote these immortal verses that are performed till today on every opening of the world famous Dubrovnik Summer Festival:
" O you beautiful, o you dear, o you sweet freedom窶ｦ all the silver, all the gold, all human lives, can not pay for your pure beauty窶ｦ".
Is that enough????
Most famous Croatian: Tito!
hA HA..... MY DEAR.... Tito was a famous Yugoslavian. It's long story!
Here's link
By the way... in his time lived my mom and dad..... it was realy nice time..... Let's say it was beather than now. But, I love free Croatia... i love my land
