Before revision: Ragusa A similar gubernatorial use or as Chief magistrate existed in the Republic of Ragusa (presently Dubrovnik, in Croatian Dalmatia ), which was governed by a Rector (also in the Italian form Rettore ) repeatedly: 1190–1194 between the period of sovereignty of the Norman Kingdom of "Sicily" (Naples) and Venetian sovereignty, annually elected, alongside the title 'Comes'; 1370–1808, alongside the title Duke or its Slavonic equivalent Knez , during periods of sovereignty of the Hungarian crown until 1458, then the Ottoman Sultan (formally 1526 – 1718), after 1684 under the joint 'protection' of Habsburg Austria and the Ottoman Empire, then from 1798 under Austrian (and from 1806 under French) occupation until it was incorporated into Napoleonic Illyria
After revision: Ragusa A similar gubernatorial use or as Chief magistrate existed in the Republic of Ragusa (presently Dubrovnik, Croatia ), which was governed by a Rector (also in the Italian form Rettore and the Slavonic equivalent Knez ): 1358 – 1808, during the independence of the Ragusan Republic and two years after it was occupied by Napoleonic France in 1806.used