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Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado (1887)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 179

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ry nearly as I have interpreted it.The tower may have been the tribunal or prison of the commune. 154 Veglia: Castle of the F7angipani. [Ch. xxvi. tions forked battlements and spreading base presentsa fine front to the sea (Fig. 90), but it is a mereshell of roofless walls with here and there a bit… … Fig. 90. tion below it, AVREyE venetorvm libertati, seemsto record the delight of the Vegliesi at their deliver-ance from the tyrant. This ancient stronghold ofthe Frangipani, counts of Veglia Segna and Modrussa,patricians of Venice, and sometune viceroys of Dalma-tia Croatia and Slavonia, was sold…

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