If you are fascinated by purchasing a studio or a place, you ought to know that, though slightly, real-estate prices in Croatia are dropping. As Centarnekretnina.net writes, in Zagreb, property prices compared to last month dropped by 0.6 %, and on the yearly level, prices softened by 5 percent.

Terraces are the costliest on Medvescak, where a square meter costs 2406 euros and the cheapest are in Sesvete, where the medium price is 1259 euros per square meter.House prices in Zagreb decreased by 8.7% compared against the previous year.

But property prices on Adriatic just about did not change in May, compared with April. Costs even increased by 0.2%, and compared to the previous year are cheaper by 4.6 p.c. The median price of holiday houses and flats on the sea is 1976 Euro dollars per square mete, 0.4 p.c more than in the month before.

In Dubrovnik-Neretva County, holiday homes and flats are the costliest. The median price is 2186 Euro dollars per square meter. Lika-Senj county is the cheapest, where the average needed price is 1656 Euro dollars per square meter.

The average needed price of flat by the sea is slightly lower compared to the previous month and is 1769 euros per square mete, which is 12.9 percent lower than last year. Residences on the sea are still the most costly in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, where the medium price is 2700e uros per square meter. Flats are the cheapest in the Sibenik-Knin County, where the mandatory price is 1393 Euro dollars per square meter, as writes tagza.com.

Dubrovnik is a Croatian town on the Adriatic Sea coast positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most outstanding holiday maker destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its population was 43,770 in 2001, down from 49,728 in 1991. In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World heritage preservation sites.

The wealth of the town of Dubrovnik has often been primarily based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Ragusa, AKA a Maritime Republic (along with Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa, Venice and other Italian cities), it became the sole eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved an extraordinary level of development, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries. Though demilitarised in the 1970s with the intent of forever safeguarding it from war devastation, in 1991, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was encircled by Serb-Montenegrin forces for seven months and badly damaged by shelling.

Historical lore signals that Ragusa (Dubrovnik) was set up in the 7th century on a rocky island named Laus, which provided shelter for Dalmatian refugees from the close by city of Epidaurus. The romance-dalmatian founders were escaping from the Slavic invasions.

Another theory appeared latterly, based on new archaeological excavations. New discoveries (a Byzantine basilica from 8th century and parts of the town walls) contradict the traditional speculation. The size of the old basilica clearly implies that there had been quite a large settlement at the time. There’s also increasing support in the systematic community for the theory that major development of Ragusa occurred before the current time. This “Greek speculation” has been turbo-charged by recent findings of countless Greek artifacts during excavations in the Port of Dubrovnik. Also, drilling below the primary town road has disclosed natural sand, contradicting the idea of Laus ( Lausa ) island.

Doctor. Antun Nieti, in his book “Povijest dubrovake luke” (History of the Port of Dubrovnik), expounds the theory that Dubrovnik was established by Greek sailors. A key component in this speculation is the incontrovertible fact that ships in traditional times travelled about 45-50 nautical miles a day, and needed a sandy shore to drag out of water for the rest period in the night. The perfect rest site would have a fresh water source in its vicinity. Dubrovnik has both, and is situated almost halfway between the 2 known Greek settlements of Budva and Korula (95 NM is the space between them).

After the decline of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the city came under the protection of the Byzantine Empire, even though it was essentially an independent city-state that actively interacted with the encompassing Serbian littoral and the Italian spur. Ragusa in those medioeval centuries had a population of Latinized Illyrians, who spoke their own Dalmatian language and was an island.

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