Livio...pay attention to two part of text...first one at begining where text explain about curch of St.Stephan in Dubrovnik..one theory say that it was built by donation of BOSNIAN king Stjepan wich lived around year 815...GOOGLE TRANSLATE like this:
It is difficult to resist the temptation and not to state that many news stories have not been recorded and that they have not reached us, but that many of them were recorded by the wickedness of people and the accidents of the times, and that the old Dubrovnik chroniclers and their relatives are later historiographers who say much about themselves In the patriotic rapture, they were invectively plucked and plucked, and on the basis of their historical expression, stood out to their rivals the Venetians, with whom they wrestled for the primacy of antiquity, lordship and glory, thus pushing themselves first to the detriment of the truth, so that they gloss over the past , and others sought to turn and mutilate what would be irrefutable in a dispute (to the contrary). According to this, as so many other news, so does this one about the construction of the church of St. Stephen29 is unclear. This church was certainly built a long time ago, as evidenced by the work of Constantine, citing the principal churches and powers of the saints aloud, in the cities of Roman Dalmatia, for Dubrovnik writes: Coeterum in eadem urbe depositus fuit S. Pancratius in aede S. Stephani, quae est in media urbe (Banduri, p. 91),. Razzi writes: dell 'anno 815. vogliono alcuni scrittori, fosse fatta by almeno ristaurata et aggrandita la chiesa di S. stefano, con ispesa di mille e ottocento ducali e che in quella fossero poste le sacre reliquie, le quali prima slavano nella chiesa di S. Sergio (p. 16). Likewise, in the correspondence of one of the oldest chronicles of Dubrovnik it is stated that Stjepan was the Bosnian king in 815 for the construction of the church of St. Stjepan gave 6000 perps of Dubrovnik and put the doodle of Srdjan Stojko as chaplain (Zibaldone II, p. 13). Later, Stjepan went to Dubrovnik to work the vows and endowed rich churches with endowments and churches, and to the city which at that time was spread over an area of He grunts to the top of Srđ and to the end of Višnjica, he bestows; Parish, Brgat, Sumet and Rijeka. Then, shortly after 819, Stephen died, his widow Queen Margarita, with her two nobles; Jelina and Lucija moved to Dubrovnik, because 29 Map - designation: an - eastern part 40 was related to the noble family Cruce. According to her, she is at the church of St. Stephen, erected a monastery and lived as a dummy (nun) in it until 827, and with her money she built a rampart from Pustierna to the gate of the old town on the Lava, next to the church of St. Margarita, which was previously erected and after which the door was named. In 1571 the people of Dubrovnik wanted to fortify the town better against the Turks, demolished (demolished) the church and erected the bell tower of St. George in its place. Margarita30, and a little further behind the Soldiers' Exit, the present church of St. Margarite31, as immortalized by the inscription (Skurla, pp. 65-70.) Regina Bosnae Margarita traditur Dicasse temlum Margaritae Virgini Olim beata cum fuere saecula; Id nunc saccellum transtulere providi Patres, Marte circum moenia fragments Cum classe Cypro Rex Selimus imminet Crijevic, S. (Prolegomena in sacram ...) writes: Ecclesia S. Stephani Protomartyris aedificata circa annum 930, instaurata anno 1050, antiqua Pontificis sedes cathedralis at terremotu 1667 eversa adhuc in ruderibus iacet. Coletius and M. Gundulic appreciate that the church of St. Stephen built by Pavlimir in 875 AD. (p. 37), and Skurla (p. 5) thought; that it can be held freely, that the church was built by the people of Dubrovnik, and then when they themselves are expanding their first small land. This Skurla opinion seems most appropriate to me, since the first construction of the church of St. Stephen must have happened in the first half of the 10th century, because otherwise Constantine could not say anything about the temple.
The mentioned King Stephen is difficult to find among the Bosnian rulers. According to the scarce news of Bosnia by XI. For centuries, with short periods of independent independence, she changed various masters, now falling to the Serbian princes or the Eastern emperors. Years. 1082-85. Bodin of Dukla, gave it to 46 Prince Stephen (Klaić, 1882, pp. 42-45). Well, this Bosnian Prince Stjepan Nit could have been the founder or renovator of the church of St. Stjepan, not so rare benefactor of Dubrovnik, that the city, from his death in the black wrapped, would so much mourn and celebrate with so unusual anecdotes his treasured memory, as it was precisely this Prince of Bosnia who tried to turn his back on Dubrovnik's independence (Resti, p. 31 .). Among the Croatian rulers in IX. and the tenth century also has no steppes. King Stephen I was mentioned only in the XI. During the centuries that he defended Dalmatia against the Saracens, he could have come into contact with the people of Dubrovnik, and in the service he did to them, defending and protecting them and their naval trade against pirates, he apparently appeared to them as a friend and a great benefactor. It is more difficult to understand how he could donate the surrounding villages from Zupa to Zaton to Dubrovnik, since at that time Dalmatia was dependent on the Venetian Doge, which was only abducted by Stjepan's successor, Petar Kresimir. It is true that the Venetian rule in Dalmatia was quite thin at the time, and that the Venetians were not able to defend Dalmatia from Saracen, but had to afford Stephen and calmly watch that he was also defending that Venetian Dalmatia by defending himself. And precisely because of this Venetian weakness, it might be possible that he gave those places to Dubrovnik for their greater security, which they had come to expect. Croatian King Stephen I was married to Hicel the daughter of a Venetian duke. However, he also seems to have remarried and married Margarita, a relative of the Croce family from Dubrovnik, who because of this became even more fond of Dubrovnik and mediated with her husband that he and Dubrovnik should have a more friendly relationship. Certainly without contradiction of more appropriate reasons and contemporary external evidence, it could be admitted that this Croatian King Stjepan, the temple of his namesake Sv. He renewed and enlarged Stephen in Dubrovnik and endowed him with rare holy powers, precious vessels, linen and rich endowments, and expanded the Dubrovnik land. '
