li from the chain of forts built along it bythe Tralirini in the fifteenth century, when theTurkish conquests of the interior first brought thatpeople into dangerous proximity to the coast ^. Thisbasin, sheltered from the Bora by the Cabani moun-tains, and from the storms of the Adriatic by thehigh… … Fig- 45- scenery through which the road passes might almostbe called soft. Salona is the first of a string of populous villagesthat line the road. Next comes Vranjica, or PiccolaVenezia, a fishermans village on a long narrow penin-sula very like the isola dei Pescatori in Lago Maggiore,where it is…
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