Fonds HR-DADU-44 - Dogana; Doana; Dohana (Main customs house)

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Cote

HR-DADU-44

Titre

Dogana; Doana; Dohana (Main customs house)

Date(s)

  • 13th century - 19th century (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Fonds

Étendue matérielle et support

72 volumes; 2 linear metres; textual records

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Notice biographique

Histoire archivistique

The Main Customs House operated according to the provisions of the Customs Statute of the Dubrovnik Republic from 1277, according to the amendments that were made later as well as according to the provisions of the Senate. The Main Customs House was managed by four customs officers (divonieri) elected from the nobility, who used to be first elected by the Minor Council and later by the Major Council. Prior to its being in the Sponza Palace (which was built in 1522), the Main Customs House had been placed in another building at the same location. The Sponza Palace also provided space for different warehouses for storage of merchandise and for a mint. This institution in Sponza was the main and the only customs office in the Republic until the collapse of the Republic in 1808. Its officials were in charge to collect import, export and transit customs duties, excise duties on domestic wine, oil, fresh and salted meat, tobacco customs duties, real estate, and boat trading fees, as well as to collect duties on deposits in Italian banks, income tax on houses owned by Dubrovnik residents abroad, or duties on ships, etc. Since 1521, another very important duty of customs officers was also to manage the affairs of the city mint and since 1662, customs officers were even allowed to give short-term loans to merchants. The so-called gümrük officers, who oversaw the payment of flat rate of customs duties that had to be paid by the Ragusans to the Ottomans, also operated within the Main Customs House.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

The fonds has been linked to the archive since its inception. In times of the Dubrovnik Republic, the books of the fonds were stored in the Sponza Palace, where the state customs, called the Main Customs Building, was located. The archival material was relocated to the Rector’s Palace by 1891, when the archives were consolidated and were made available to researchers. The archive in the Rector's Palace has been functioning as an independent institution since 1920, and it was relocated in 1952 to the Sponza Palace, where it is still located today.

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Portée et contenu

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Mode de classement

The fonds consists of two series Dogana (HR-DADU-44.1) and Giumruch (HR-DADU-44.2).

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d’accès

The fonds is fully accessible to researchers in accordance with the Ordinance on the work in the reading room of the State Archives in Dubrovnik and the Law on Archival Materials and Archives NN 61/18 (Pravilnik o radu u čitaonici Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku and Zakon o arhivskom gradivu i arhivima NN 61/18).

Conditions de reproduction

Taking photographs and scanning are allowed, for a fee.

Langue des documents

  • italien

Écriture des documents

  • latin

Notes de langue et graphie

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

Paper. The archival material is well preserved.

Instruments de recherche

Zone des sources complémentaires

Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

State Archives in Dubrovnik

Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

The fonds has been completely transferred to microfilms, but the microfilms are not available to the users of State Archives in Dubrovnik.

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Old reference code

Fonds of the Dubrovnik Republic and the territory of the former Republic under the French Administration, series 35 and 42

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Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

Descriptions of fonds, series and sub-series are made according to the ISAD (G) standard (general international standard archival description).

Statut

Niveau de détail

Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

2021

Langue(s)

  • anglais

Écriture(s)

Sources

Note de l'archiviste

Description prepared by Vesna Miović (Fonds, Series, Subseries) Croatia [The Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA)] Translation to English by Zrinka Friganović Sain

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