Medieval to Early Modern Europe
Ragusa Paid Everyone and Fought No One
A tiny city-state with no army and no navy somehow survived five hundred years between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian Republic, by paying both sides, lying to everyone, and never once firing a shot.
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