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Dubrovnik Latin: Ragusa) is an old city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist resorts, a seaport and the center of the Dubrovnik–Neretva county. Its population was about 45 000. The majority of its citizens are Croats. Dubrovnik is nicknamed "Pearl of the Adriatic".
The city of Ragusa/Dubrovnik was based on maritime trade; in the Middle Ages, it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th centuries. Dubrovnik was one of the centers of the development of the Croatian language and literature, home to many notable poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars.
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