Republic of Ragusa - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A historian from this polity published The Kingdom of the Slavs, a religious history of the Balkans that influenced later nationalists and pan-Slavists, in 1601. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this home state of Mavro Orbini. This maritime republic pioneered public health measures like the trentina, a mandatory 30-day quarantine for travelers, and suffered a devastating 1667 earthquake.

ANSWER: Republic of Ragusa

[10m] Orbini traced Ragusa’s origins partly to this ancient people who inhabited the Dalmatian coast. These people gave their name to a nineteenth-century pan-South-Slavic movement centered in Croatia.

ANSWER: Illyrians [accept Illyrian movement]

[10e] The Kingdom of the Slavs wrongly claimed that St. Jerome, an Illyrian, had invented the Glagolitic script, the predecessor of this alphabet used to write Slavic languages like Serbian and Russian.

ANSWER: Cyrillic

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	83%	50%	50%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	20.83	100%	75%	33%

Data


UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
UC Irvine	UCSD C	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Guelph	0	10	10	20
Queen's	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Brock	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
UBC A	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	UBC B	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Western B	0	10	10	20
NC State B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
North Carolina C	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	VCU	10	0	10	20
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	10	10	10	30
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Chicago E	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Southern Connecticut State	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
MIT	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Brown	Yale	0	0	10	10
LSE	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Durham	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Montpellier	UCL	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
City St. George's	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Carleton College	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Purdue B	0	0	10	10