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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