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The Brač Statute

In Dalmatia in the Middle Ages, it was common practice for life to be governed by a collection of regulations contained in a Statute. Brač’s statue is among the oldest, dating back to at least 1305 and suspected to be considerably older.It was thanks to this Statute that Brač, in the centuries that Dalmatia was under the dominion of powers such as Venice and Austria, enjoyed a remarkable degree of autonomy, for years appointing its own prince and managing the island’s government locally. The Statute at some point was lost, and was resurrected in 1655 by a councillor named Petar Matiazza, who probably reconstituted it from old documentation and oral testimony from the islanders. This copy is now kept in the research library in Zadar.
 

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