place_of_birth anselmo banduri
___MASK47___ , officially the Republic ___MASK6___ ___MASK47___ , is a sovereign state between Central Europe , Southeast Europe , and the Mediterranean . Its capital city is Zagreb , which forms one ___MASK6___ the country ' s primary subdivisions , along with its twenty counties . ___MASK47___ covers and has diverse , mostly continental and Mediterranean climates . ___MASK47___ ' s Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands . The country ' s population is 4 . 28 million , most ___MASK6___ whom are Croats , with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism . Latin ( Latin : ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch ___MASK6___ the Indo - European languages . The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets . Anselmo Banduri ( August 18 , 1671 or 1675 -- January 4 , 1743 ) was a Benedictine scholar , archaeologist and numismatologist from the ___MASK25___ ___MASK6___ Ragusa . Banduri was born in Ragusa , Dalmatia as Matteo ( Matija ) Banduri , he joined the Benedictines at an early age and took the monk name Anselmo . He studied at Naples , and was eventually sent to Florence , then a flourishing center ___MASK6___ higher studies . Here he made the acquaintance ___MASK6___ the famous Benedictine scholar Bernard de Montfaucon , at the time traveling in Italy in search ___MASK6___ manuscripts for his edition ___MASK6___ the works ___MASK6___ St . John Chrysostom . Banduri rendered him valuable services and in return was recommended to Cosimo III de ' Medici , Grand Duke ___MASK6___ Tuscany for the chair ___MASK6___ ecclesiastical history in the University ___MASK6___ Pavia . It was also suggested that the young Benedictine be sent to Paris for a period ___MASK6___ preparation , and especially to acquire a sound critical sense . After a short sojourn at Rome , Banduri arrived at Paris in 1702 and entered the Abbey ___MASK6___ Saint - Germain - des - Prés as a pensioner ___MASK6___ the Grand Duke ___MASK6___ Tuscany . He soon became an apt disciple ___MASK6___ the French Maurists and began an edition ___MASK6___ the anti - iconoclastic writings ___MASK6___ Nicephorus ___MASK6___ Constantinople , ___MASK6___ the writings ___MASK6___ Theodore ___MASK6___ Mopsuestia , and ___MASK6___ other Greek ecclesiastical authors . Banduri never published these works , though as late as 1722 he announced , as near at hand , their appearance in four folio volumes . In the meantime , he was attracted by the rich treasures ___MASK6___ Byzantine manuscript and other material in the Bibliothèque Royale and the Bibliothèque Colbert . In 1711 he published at Paris his De Administrando Imperio ( Imperium Orientale , sive Antiquitates Constantinopolitanae ) , a documentary illustrated work on the Byzantine Empire , based on medieval Greek manuscripts , some ___MASK6___ which were then first made known . He also defended himself successfully against Casimir Oudin , an ex - Premonstratensian , whose attacks were made on a second - hand knowledge ___MASK6___ Banduri ' s work . In 1718 he published , also at Paris , two folio volumes on the imperial coinage from Trajan to the last ___MASK6___ the Palaeologi ( 98 - 1453 ) , Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum a Trajano Decio usque ad Palaeologos Augustos ( supplement by Tanini , Rome , 1791 ) . ___MASK6___ this work Father Joseph Hilarius Eckhel , S . J . , prince ___MASK6___ numismatologists , says ( Doctrina Nummorum I , cviii ) that it contains few important contributions . At the same time he praises the remarkable bibliography ___MASK6___ the subject that Banduri prefixed to this work under the title ___MASK6___ Bibliotheca nummaria sive auctorum qui de re nummaria scripserunt , reprinted by Johann Albert Fabricius ( Hamburg , 1719 ) . In 1715 Banduri was made an honorary foreign member ___MASK6___ the Académie des Inscriptions , and in 1724 was appointed librarian to the Duke ___MASK6___ Orléans ; he had in vain solicited a similar office at Florence on the death ___MASK6___ the famous Antonio Magliabechi . He died in Paris . The ___MASK25___ ___MASK6___ Ragusa was a maritime republic centered on the city ___MASK6___ ___MASK29___ ("" in Italian , German and Latin , " Raguse " in French ) in Dalmatia ( today in southernmost Croatia ) that existed from 1358 to 1808 . It reached its commercial peak in the 15th and the 16th centuries , before being conquered by Napoleon ' s French Empire and formally annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom ___MASK6___ Italy in 1808 . It had a population ___MASK6___ about 30 , 000 people , out ___MASK6___ whom 5 , 000 lived within the city walls . Its motto was """", which translated from Latin means " Liberty is not well sold for all the gold ". ___MASK34___ Bonaparte (" Napoléon Bonaparte "; , born "" Napoleone di Buonaparte ""; 15 August 1769  5 May 1821 ) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars . As ___MASK34___ I , he was Emperor ___MASK6___ the French from 1804 until 1814 , and again in 1815 . ___MASK34___ dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series ___MASK6___ coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars . He won most ___MASK6___ these wars and the vast majority ___MASK6___ his battles , building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815 . One ___MASK6___ the greatest commanders in history , his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide . ___MASK34___ ' s political and cultural legacy has ensured his status as one ___MASK6___ the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history . ___MASK73___ (; see names in other languages ) is one ___MASK6___ the four historical regions ___MASK6___ Croatia , alongside Croatia proper , Slavonia , and Istria . ___MASK29___ ( also known by other names ) is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea , in the region of Dalmatia . It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea , a seaport and the centre of ___MASK29___ - Neretva County . Its total population is 42 , 615 ( census 2011 ). In 1979 , the city of ___MASK29___ joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites .