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Croatian mariners
in the New World;
Croatian Guilds and Collegiums

According to Venetian archives, nearly 20% of the eastern part of the city of Venice called Castello was Croatian. Even today there are streets, squares, passages, bridges and churches in Venice that bear witness of the presence of Croats during many centuries, most often in the name of Schiavone, Brazza (= the island of Brac), Lesina (= the island of Hvar) etc. For more details see an article by Lovorka Coralic in [Croazia/Italia].

Croatian coat of arms (on threecolor flag), on the left mast of the Enrica brig,
built in Rijeka in 1868

It is indicative that a (French?) lexicographer and maritime historian J. Jal included in his Glossair nautique about 500 original Croatian maritime terms.

Steamship Hrvatska (Croatia), 1904

(from R.F. Barbalic, I. Marendic: Onput, kad smo partili, MH Rijeka, 2004, with permission of Mr. Darko Dekovic)
One of truly fascinating exploits in which Croatian mariners participated is related to ARCTIC EXPEDITION in 1872-1874http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/arctic.html, organized by the Austrian-Hungarian state.

Captain Mate Dulcic Hraste-Pucetov from the island of Hvar obtained a silver jug from the British Governement as a recognition for saving the boat "St. Croix". Gilted inside, 14.5 cm high and with diameter of the opening of 8.5 cm, the jug bears the the following inscription see [Mate Milicic et al., p 68]:

C R O A T I A
an Overview of its History, Culture and Science

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CROATS AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

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