[200] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 40, Heyd, _op. cit._, i. 308.
[201] Theiner, _Mon. Hist. Slav. Mer. illustr._, i. 121; Heyd, _op. cit._, ii. 50.
[207] It still exists in the upper part of the town, but is now used as a depot for military stores.
[208] Gelcich, _Istituzioni Marittime e Sanitarie_, p. 14.
[209] The word is said to be derived from “a Ragusa,” but it is doubtful.
[212] _Lib. Ref._, i. 1325, July 18, p. 176.
[213] A complaint was made to King Robert of Naples because of the acts of piracy committed by the people of Manfredonia, _Lib. Ref._, i., 1325, Oct. 17, p. 184.
[214] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 204, Misti, 1326-27.
[215] _Istituzioni Marittime e Sanitarie_, p. 16.
[216] The custom was an Italian one, and the word _ceppo_ is still used for Christmas box, or even for Christmas itself.
[218] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 204, _Misti_, 1329.
[219] Mjatović, _Studies in the History of Servian Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries_, Glasnik, vol. 33, 37, 38; Jireček, _op. cit._
[221] There are hardly any distinctive traces now of the Vlachs in Dalmatia, save in the name Morlacchi, given to the Slaves generally by the Italians of the coast towns. In Macedonia, however, the Kutzo-Vlachs are numerous, and preserve both their language, which belongs to the Neo-Latin group, and their nomadic habits. There they still ply the trade of cattle-drovers or that of wandering merchants. See Jireček, _op. cit._, p. 60; also his _Wlachen und Maurowlachen_, _passim_; and _Turkey in Europe_, by “Odysseus.”
[222] Afterwards called Carina = custom house.
[223] Geçcha or Geçecha in the Ragusan documents, mentioned as early as 1275.
[224] Now called Plevlje (Turkish, _Tašlydža_) in the Sandžak of Novibazar. This stream, which flows through the town, is still called the Breznica, and a neighbouring monastery Vrhobreznica = high Breznica.
[225] In the sixteenth century castle and monastery were still in good repair, and the latter was inhabited by fifty monks, and contained the body of St. Saba, the patron saint of the Southern Slaves (see Zen’s Diary in _Starine_ x. of South-Slav. Acad.). The body was removed and burnt by the Turks in 1595, and the building fell into ruins by the end of the eighteenth century. Priepolje is now the southernmost point garrisoned by Austria in the Sandžak of Novibazar.