Medieval to Early Modern Europe
Ragusa Paid Everyone and Fought No One
A tiny city-state with no army and no navy somehow survived five hundred years between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian Republic—by paying both sides, lying to everyone, and never once firing a shot.
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