But there's no moat like the sea. The clever elders of the city gave a strip of land between Dubrovnik and Venice to the Ottomans -- thereby eliminating the path for of a land attack from Venice. At that point, the city concentrated on defending from an attack by sea. This came back to haunt Dubrovnik during the 1991 siege when their fellow Croats could only provide support from the sea.
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