The Republic of Ragusa, or Republic of Dubrovnik, is a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian and Latin) in Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia), that exists from 1358 to 1808.

It reaches its commercial peak in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries, before being conquered by Napoleon's French Empire and formally annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1808.

It has a population of about thirty thousand people, out of whom five thousand live within the city walls.

Its motto is "Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro", which translated from Latin means "Liberty is not well sold for all the gold".