The carrack was a merchant vessel, and the largest cargo sailing ship in the 15th and 16th centuries. The carracks were armed with forty cannons to
City wall towards the southern part of the city harbor In 1470, a decision was made to build a new defensive wall on the southern part of the city
St. John's Tower was the main fortification for the defense of the historic port of Dubrovnik. The city port was closed off with a chain, and this
The Rector’s Palace Tower was located at the south eastern corner of the Rector’s Palace and it was its largest and the most important tower. It
The present-day walls of Dubrovnik, in their full extent, were erected in the 13th century, with other extensions added periodically until 1660. The
There were a number of shipyards in the Dubrovnik area: larger ones were in the town of Suđurađ on the island of Lopud and on the island of Šipan,
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