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* Original from: Harvard University
* Original from: Harvard University
* Digitized: 23 Oct 2008
* Digitized: 23 Oct 2008
== See also ==
* [[Directory:Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula| Korcula History (Historical Compendium of the Island of Korcula)]]
* [[Directory:Korcula History 2|Korcula History 2]]
* [[Korcula Dialect]]
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*''The present appearance and bell tower beside it are from the 17th -18th centuries, the Baroque period. On the main altar is the painting All Saints by the Venetian artist Girolamo Da Santa Croce, from 1540. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=1ySaAAAAIAAJ&q=Girolamo+Da+Santa+Croce&dq=Girolamo+Da+Santa+Croce&hl=en&ei=irl9Td_0CIO4vQPblsH0Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA Five centuries of Italian painting, 1300-1800:] From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation</ref>''
*''The present appearance and bell tower beside it are from the 17th -18th centuries, the Baroque period. On the main altar is the painting All Saints by the Venetian artist Girolamo Da Santa Croce, from 1540. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=1ySaAAAAIAAJ&q=Girolamo+Da+Santa+Croce&dq=Girolamo+Da+Santa+Croce&hl=en&ei=irl9Td_0CIO4vQPblsH0Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA Five centuries of Italian painting, 1300-1800:] From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation</ref>''
*''There is a large number of small churches and chapels in the city and the surroundings. The oldest is St. Cosmas and Damian (Sv. Kuzma I Damjan) from the 6th century (Early-Christian), followed by St. Mary in the. Field (Sv. Marija u polju), St. Martin and others. Blato has new houses but also many old ones with paved courtyards, trellis work and sheds. Here, too, there were summer houses of the Korcula nobility, outstanding among which is the Baroque castle Arneri in the town centre. It is to house the regional museum with archaeological, historical and ethnographic collections''.<ref>[http://www.ikorculainfo.com/blato/ www.ikorculainfo.com: Blato]</ref>}}
*''There is a large number of small churches and chapels in the city and the surroundings. The oldest is St. Cosmas and Damian (Sv. Kuzma I Damjan) from the 6th century (Early-Christian), followed by St. Mary in the. Field (Sv. Marija u polju), St. Martin and others. Blato has new houses but also many old ones with paved courtyards, trellis work and sheds. Here, too, there were summer houses of the Korcula nobility, outstanding among which is the Baroque castle Arneri in the town centre. It is to house the regional museum with archaeological, historical and ethnographic collections''.<ref>[http://www.ikorculainfo.com/blato/ www.ikorculainfo.com: Blato]</ref>}}
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: Goodbye my Bobvisča bay
: Goodbye my Bobvisča bay
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: When I sang ...
== The issue of dates ==
The issue of dates is an interesting one. Historians from the 18th and 19th century place the arrival of the Slavs into the Western Balkans in the 7th century but the more modern research undertaken by scholars and archaeologists cannot confirm this. The arrival and settlement of the Slavs by some has now been thought to be more in the region of the 8th century or even early 9th century.
In my opinion they could be both correct. The first arrivals may have been with the Avars who were a nomadic people from Eurasian. This first wave of invasion would have been one of many in the region so the Romans would have abandoned their cities and towns (i.e. Epidaurum, Narona and Salona) and altogether their way of life. New cities were established with fortification. Cities such as Ragusa (today called Dubrovnik) and Spalatum later know as Spalato (today called Split). The cities that survived the invasions were fortified. The new arrivals would not have been significant enough to leave an historical footprint other than in the cities and towns of Roman Dalmatia where there remains physical evidence of attacks and raids.
The second wave appears to have been later but more gradual and slightly larger in numbers however nothing like the great wave of mass movement as describe by the 19th century Historians. By the time of the late 8th century and early 9th century their numbers were large enough to leave an historical footprint. This historical footprint would be the start of the written history as well as the recording of archaeological evidence. The historical footprint is one of settlement.
De Administrando Imperio & 0thers:
De Administrando Imperio (On the Governance of the Empire) by Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos is a book that was written between 948 and 952. It contains advice on running the empire as well as fighting foreign enemies. Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos was the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, sometimes known simply by its contemporaries as the Roman Empire. Today it is now know as The Byzantine Empire.
Porphyrogennetos would have written in terms of political identity rather than ethnicity. It was the Greco-Roman way. For a reader from the 10 century the book would have a different meaning than read by scholars from the 18th and 19th century.
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