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The shores of the Adriatic, the Austrian side : the Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia (1908)

Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923 · London : Murray · leaf 505

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e\VXL PLAN OF THE DOMINICAN CONVENT, RAGUSA balustrades of the fourteenth century. It led to a gateof the city. Until the seventeenth century it was theduty of the Dominicans to defend Porta Ploce ; theFranciscans defended Porta Pile; and the cathedralcanons Porta Pescheria. One hundred soldiers… … CHURCH OF S. DOMINICO 349 selected monthly from the various ranks, and weredivided into two bands for alternate nightly police;twenty-seven more were told off to defend nine selectedpoints against external attack. The lesser towers be-longed to patrician houses who were responsible fortheir…

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