The society also had a middle class antuine who were below the nobility, while below them were the lazarins and they had no political rights.
At one point there was an economic crisis. There was a fall in the price of money and a sharp rise in prices due to the large import of gold and silver from America. The center of trade was no longer the Mediterranean, but trade in the Atlantic. The most sensitive prices were the prices of wheat and cereals. Prices of imported goods are also rising.
Serbs in Dubrovnik
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Until the middle of the 19th century, there were no differences between Serbs and Croats. Then there were national revivals in Europe. The people were called Latins, who were of Italian and Slavic origin, Serbs and Croats. There were no differences between Serbs and Croats in Dubrovnik. The Slavic population that had immigrated to accept Catholicism in order to have rights, but they retained their nationality. The Serbs came from eastern Herzegovina. Famous Serbs from Dubrovnik were mathematician Ruđer Bošković, writer Ivo Vojnović and historian Jorijo Tadić.
Nowadays, all Catholics are Croats and Orthodox are Serbs. In recent times, at the beginning of the 20th century and between the First and Second World Wars, there were the most immigrants of Serbs. At the end of the 19th century, the Orthodox Church was built. There were about 5,000 Serbs until the 1990s, and after that there were very few left. Some left Dubrovnik, and those who remained declared themselves undecided or Croats.
