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Konavle
Konavle (pronounced [kɔ̌naːv̞lɛ]) is a municipality and a small Dalmatian subregion located southeast of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The region is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the center of the municipality is Cavtat.
The total municipality population was 8,577 people in 2011, split in the following 32 settlements:
In the 2011 census, 97.1% of the population were Croats. Historically, inhabitants of Konavle were called Canalesi.
Konavle has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. In the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the Illyrian tribes of Pleraei and Ardiaei settled in this area. In the 2nd century BC the Romans developed an important trade and maritime center at the intersection of Roman roads on the site of the Greek colony of Epidaurus. Konavle gets its name from the Latin word canalis, and refers to the irrigation canals that supplied water from the spring in the village of Vodovađa via Kuna Konavoska to Epidaurus. In addition to the remains of the Roman aqueduct near the village of Vodovađa, there are remains of villae rusticae, cult monuments (the Mithraic monument in Močići), graves, the remains of the Roman road above Cavtat, and numerous fragments and archaeological finds.
In the Middle Ages, Konavle was part of Travunia, which at various times was tied to vassalage to Serbian, Dioclean and Bosnian rulers. Archaeological finds and monuments from that period include necropolises of Bogomil stećak tombstones in Konavle Hills, Gabrili, Mihanići and Dunave, of which the most beautiful is considered to be the stećak in Brotnice in the cemetery of the Church of Saint Thomas. However, traditions speak of the Konavle area belonging to Ragusa, which the Republic of Ragusa also refers to in its efforts to bring the entire area back under its rule. In 1427, the authorities of Ragusa set out to eradicate Bogomilism in Konavle. Catholicism was restored there by the Franciscans in a rapid process that converted the entire population.
The charter of the Sanković noble family of Hum states that the people of the old city of Epidaurus gave birth to and inherited the nobility of the city of Ragusa. The old Ragusan chronicles record the same tradition, with Nicola Ragnina and Giunio Resti stating:
Konavle is the oldest jurisdiction of the ruined city of Epidaurus, and therefore it was fitting that after 800 years the descendants of the Epidaurans should regain their old dominion over Konavle and Vitaljina. That these lands belonged to Epidaurus is most clearly evidenced by the aqueduct, built at enormous expense, to bring water to Epidaurus from a distance of 20 miles...
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Konavle
Konavle (pronounced [kɔ̌naːv̞lɛ]) is a municipality and a small Dalmatian subregion located southeast of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The region is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the center of the municipality is Cavtat.
The total municipality population was 8,577 people in 2011, split in the following 32 settlements:
In the 2011 census, 97.1% of the population were Croats. Historically, inhabitants of Konavle were called Canalesi.
Konavle has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. In the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the Illyrian tribes of Pleraei and Ardiaei settled in this area. In the 2nd century BC the Romans developed an important trade and maritime center at the intersection of Roman roads on the site of the Greek colony of Epidaurus. Konavle gets its name from the Latin word canalis, and refers to the irrigation canals that supplied water from the spring in the village of Vodovađa via Kuna Konavoska to Epidaurus. In addition to the remains of the Roman aqueduct near the village of Vodovađa, there are remains of villae rusticae, cult monuments (the Mithraic monument in Močići), graves, the remains of the Roman road above Cavtat, and numerous fragments and archaeological finds.
In the Middle Ages, Konavle was part of Travunia, which at various times was tied to vassalage to Serbian, Dioclean and Bosnian rulers. Archaeological finds and monuments from that period include necropolises of Bogomil stećak tombstones in Konavle Hills, Gabrili, Mihanići and Dunave, of which the most beautiful is considered to be the stećak in Brotnice in the cemetery of the Church of Saint Thomas. However, traditions speak of the Konavle area belonging to Ragusa, which the Republic of Ragusa also refers to in its efforts to bring the entire area back under its rule. In 1427, the authorities of Ragusa set out to eradicate Bogomilism in Konavle. Catholicism was restored there by the Franciscans in a rapid process that converted the entire population.
The charter of the Sanković noble family of Hum states that the people of the old city of Epidaurus gave birth to and inherited the nobility of the city of Ragusa. The old Ragusan chronicles record the same tradition, with Nicola Ragnina and Giunio Resti stating:
Konavle is the oldest jurisdiction of the ruined city of Epidaurus, and therefore it was fitting that after 800 years the descendants of the Epidaurans should regain their old dominion over Konavle and Vitaljina. That these lands belonged to Epidaurus is most clearly evidenced by the aqueduct, built at enormous expense, to bring water to Epidaurus from a distance of 20 miles...
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