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Dubrovnik

[ doo-brawv-nik ]

noun

  1. a seaport in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic: popular tourist destination.


Dubrovnik

/ dʊˈbrɒvnɪk /

noun

  1. a port in W Croatia, on the Dalmatian coast: an important commercial centre in the Middle Ages; damaged in 1991 when it was shelled by Serbian artillery. Pop: 43 770 (2001) Former Italian name (until 1918)Ragusa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Dubrovnik

  1. City in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea .


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Notes

Retaining much of its medieval architecture and character, the city was a popular tourist center before it was badly damaged in 1991 during the civil war between the Croats and the Serbs.
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Example Sentences

In years past the advice from travel articles for Dubrovnik was simple—don’t come in the summer months when it’s unpleasantly crowded.

I checked out Paris, Giza, Dubrovnik and my aforementioned home in Connecticut.

“It took a week to shoot and it was in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in this amazing location,” says Pascal.

Their CT-43, the military version of the Boeing 737, crashed into a mountainside on approach to Dubrovnik.

Having thus qualified himself to be a schoolmaster, he went back to Dubrovnik and settled down to that profession.

The intellectual life of the Yugoslavs would, but for Dubrovnik, have died out altogether.

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