P228 - Croatia - The Walled City of Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik, Croatia (UNESCO WHS)

Dubrovnik, also known as "the Pearl of the Adriatic", is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its population was 43,770 in 2001 down from 49,728 in 1991. In the 2001 census, 88.39% of its citizens declared themselves as Croats.

In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

The prosperity of the city of Dubrovnik has always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Dubrovnik, 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, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries. Dubrovnik was one of the centres of the development of primarily the Croatian language and literature, home to many notable poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars.

杜布羅夫尼克（Dubrovnik），古稱拉古薩（Ragusa），克羅地亞南部港市，此城面臨着意大利半島的東岸，位於杜布羅夫尼克地峽之末端，以風景優美聞名，是熱門的度假勝地，有「亞得里亞海之珠」的美稱。人口在1991年為43,700人；而在2001年人口則有49,728人。在2001年的人口普查中，絕大多數人（88.39%）自稱為克羅地亞人。

杜布羅夫尼克的發展是建基於海岸貿易，在中世紀時，它是拉古薩共和國的所在地，在當時亞德里亞海中唯一能與威尼斯匹敵的城邦。這城市憑藉它的財富及外交手段，在15及16世紀時的發展已經達到一定的水平。這城市也是克羅地亞語言及文學的其中一個發展中心，是不少詩人、劇作家、數學家、物理學家及其它學者的居所。

1991年-1998年因鄰國塞爾維亞入侵曾成為瀕危遺産。在戰爭結束後，飽受砲轟的古城區依據聯合國教育、科學及文化組織的指引去修復。而在城門則有一個有關其受損程度的圖表

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