Zamagna
# Zamagna

The House of Zamagna (in Italian; Zamanja, Džamanjić or Zamanjić in Serbo-Croatian) was one of the noble families (post-Roman patriciates) of the Republic of Ragusa.

## History

### Middle Ages

The Zamagna received patrician status in 1172. According to Ragusan sources, the family had moved to Ragusa from Zahumlje (Chelmo), and had once hailed from Apulia in southern Italy.(Zamagna, di Chelmo Balislavo. ixiti di Puglia, venuti 1172) The name of the progenitor of the family, Balislavo, shows a Slavic origin.

### Early modern period

* Marino Zamagna (fl. 1533)
* Bernardo Zamagna (1735–1820), scholar.

## Džamanjić in Austria

The aristocracy was known as nobili and was given to the following members of the family in 10 November, 1 and 16 December 1817, for Luko, Marijana, Matija, Frano Matej, and Matej, after the fall of the Republic at the hands of the Austrian Empire.

