Much of the Balkans once spoke Latin but now speak Slavic languages. In areas where Slavic nobles ruled this is understandable - but what happened in Ragusa/Dubrovnik? How did a Romance-speaking population with strong commercial ties to Italy end up changing its language to Croatian?
by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians
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