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Identifier: austriahungary00mitt (find matches)
Title: Austria-Hungary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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Publisher: London A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s in the outer walls. Here theEmperor Diocletian retired in the full prime of life,for he was only fifty-nine, to cultivate his gardenand live in peace. Few men nowadays can shakethemselves free from the fetters of business, andmany postpone the enviable day of freedom simplybecause they have run so long in harness, they fearto fall without it. Yet this vigorous man laid asidepower and responsibility and grandeur with firmdetermination. His action was the more wonderfulin that he was born of slave parents, and mighttherefore have been expected to cling more closelyto the purple robe than those whose lives havealways been lapped in it. In the town, compressed into a space at one timesufficient only for the palace of one man, the housesare high and jammed together, the streets merealleys, the buildings are entirely irregular and placedanyhow, the sunshine hardly penetrates the longnarrow slits between. The city is now the See of aBishop, and has an extensive trade in wine and oil. \ ^ ^
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SPALATO: A DOOR IN DIOCLETIANS PALACE THE ILLYRIAN STATE 195 In its best days it was one of the most importantports on the Adriatic. That Spalato has a strong rival in Ragusa, thecapital, is shown by Mr. Geoffrey Drages remarks : Ragusa, the Athens of Illyria, perhaps the most interest-ing, and certainly one of the most beautiful, towns inAustria. The ancient city is still surrounded by themassive walls and frowning towers and bastions whichdefended it in the days when Richard Cceur de Lion wasso hospitably entertained there. A great trading centrein the Middle Ages, dating its origin to Roman times,Ragusa has not only a long vista of historical memories,but she has also long been eminent in the world of literature.One of Ragusas special glories was the right of asylum,and her humanitarian ideals were further shown by herordinance, the first of the kind on the Continent, forbiddingparticipation in the slave trade on pain of fine and imprison-ment ; furthermore she has the honour of be

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