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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 128

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the chain of forts built along it by the Traurini in the fifteenth century, when the Turkish conquests of the interior first brought that people into dangerous proximity to the coast1. This basin, sheltered from the Bora by the Cabani moun- tains, and from the storms of the Adriatic by the high… … I'ig- 45- scenery through which the road passes might almost be called soft. Salona is the first of a string of populous villages that line the road. Next comes Yranjica, or Piccola Venezia, a fisherman’s village on a long narrow penin- sula very like the isola dei Pescatori in Lago Maggiore, where…

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