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After Allegedly Getting A Threatening SMS Message,Dubrovnik Mayor Andro Vlahusic Is Under 24-Hour Protection

Dubrovnik Mayor Andro Vlahusic is under twenty four hour protection after allegedly receiving a threatening SMS message,croatiantimes.com writes. Though official sources have not confirmed the cause of his increased protection, rumours have it that the mayor received a threatening message that warranted more caution.

Some ruminate that the message may have come from cultural milieu angered by announced grant cuts or from taxi associations protesting against the recent call to extend the amount of taxis in the town from 128 to 166.

The total phenomenon of Dubrovnik can’t be enclosed without a complete understanding of its past which is not, of course, dissipated by the political and commercial facts on which the conventional picture of the city’s history is based. It’s therefore necessary to touch, albeit briefly, on the various levels of its past life, e.g.

Its design, creative and systematic accomplishments, day-to-day life, connections within the Euro-Mediterranean cultural circle all interpenetrate one another, rely on one another and excite each other, so that is would be troublesome to say which is of greater worth in our knowledge of that which we momentarily term DUBROVNIK.

The poser shrouding the early medieval history of Dubrovnik is only reinforced by the latest archeological research results. During work on the restoration of the present cathedral, beneath the expected foundations of a Romanesque church, devastated in the great earthquake, the remains of an equally enormous basilica, dating by its stylistic traits from the 7th/8th century, were found.

Considering the size of the building and its situation in the city, this find didn’t fit into the views held till then about the city’s beginnings and its first centuries of development. Countless erudite Problems have thus been raised which are still waiting for their analysts.

But it may be determined that the town developed from two nuclei, one on the previous islet of Lava, and one facing it on the situation of the present Prijeko street, which was a Slavic settlement. During the period from the tenth to the twelfth century the two settlements steadily merged by filling in the shallow channel between them, above that the city’s main axis, the future main street – Placa – was to be built.

There are too few remains from the early Middle Ages to enable us to form a trustworthy idea about the city, as it then was, its size and industrial strength or its cultural level. The finds of the pre-Romanesque Early Croatian church of StStephen (Sveti Stjepan), doubtless dating from the 7th/8th century, and discussed by the Byzantine Emperor-writer Constantine Porphyrogenitus, is of special interest. In the north part of the town there were 3 tiny churches (St. Luke, St. Nicholas, Sigurata) built in the style of Early Croatian architecture from the time between the 9th and 12th centuries.

Early medieval Dubrovnik must’ve had its cultural and educated ties and needs . It is known that Dubrovnik had contacts with centres on the opposite shore of the Adriatic very early on. It doubtlessly also maintained active ties with the other cities of Byzantine Dalmatia, as well as with those in the center of the Empire. A representative of Imperial power and a high-ranking church dignitary dwelt in the city. The temporal and ecclesiastical authorities had needs which could not be met in the town. For instance, most of the objects employed in liturgy couldn’t have been manufactured by local craftsmen, e.g. Parts of the reliquary of St. Blaise, still kept in the Cathedral treasury.

Aside from the clergy, the city’s development needed a rising number of educated men ready to channel the community’s wishes towards the constitution of a free municipality. Such a task needed men skilled in government, lawmaking, diplomacy, teaching, for example. All though its history Dubrovnik fulfilled a part of these wishes thru the lively movement of men in the Mediterranean, but the greatest part, through the exigencies of development, had to be undertaken by local people.

On the ethnic and cultural level, very early on there had been an active intermingling of the city’s Roman and Slavic elements. True, the Slavic element was eventually to prevail, but unique new values were to arise from the union of the two. It shouldn’t be forgotten that all this happened in the context of robust and unavoidable Mediterranean interconnections and in the shade of the Greek and Roman heritage which Croatian Dubrovnik indubitably carried on from the 14th century down to the beginning of the modern age.
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