POVIJEST SANITARNIH KORDONA I NJIHOVA ULOGA U RAZVOJU DALMATINSKIH GRADOVA

As important trading connection between East and West, Dalmatia often affected by epidemic in which plague was most dangerous. In order to prevent spreading of the plague, best sanitary protection was needed. Intense trade and numerous people form different parts of world emphasized this problem especially urgent in the coastal Dalmatian towns. In the first time (Middle Ages), the sanitary prevention was organized by lazarettoes for quarantine build-up in the overland and maritime entrances of the towns. Such prevention measures were efficacious while Ottoman border was located just near by coastal towns. Pressing the Ottoman border deeper in the Dalmatian hinterland needed new and more effective protection measurements right in the zone of the border crossing. So, in order to protect province from spreading the plaque, in the early 18th Century a Sanitary Cordon was established along the whole Venetian-ottoman border. Shifting of the sanitary control far away from the towns to the border, significantly improve sanitary safety as well as safety of the trading on which ware strongly depending most of the Dalmatian towns.