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„Wine-contamination“ of the Adriatic. Examples of punishing wine smugglers from medieval Dubrovnik

Strict import-export regulations of the medieval Dubrovnik (Ragusean) authorities included also a rather rigid control of the wine trade. Namely, since wine was considered as important nutrition sustenance, these regulations included not only wine import from foreign countries, but also control over the inner trade within the borders of Dubrovnik district (later The Republic of Dubrovnik). Each violation of these regulations was fol- lowed by high fines and shedding of the smuggled wine to the sea. However, during the 14 th century these regulations had softened and spilling of the wine was substituted with some other forms of punishment.

Dubrovnik; wine; contamination; Middle Ages

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