The Venetian Republic had begun to exercise its political and economic influence over some of the eastern Adriatic towns even before it firmly established itself in Istria in the 13th century. Istria was heavily influenced due to the geographical proximity of Venice, but differences, particularly as far as legislation was concerned, became more apparent as the geographical disiance from the center increased (Dubrovnik, for example, managed to break free from the power of Venice). Turkish expansion in the lonic and the Aegean Sea caused the Venetians to lose some of their territories and respectively strengthen their influence in Dalmatia (the territories of Zadar, and Split in particular) where they founded the so-called Split port (splitska skala). The influence of Venice was present in all areas of economic, cultural and social life, and could be traced in the activities of fraternities as well. As far as we known so far, no statute of a typically guild oriented fraternity in Koper has been preserved to this day. However, since there were similarly organized fraternities of bombardiers (bombardieri) of St. Barbara active in Split and Koper at about the same time, the author took the statute of the Split fraternity for the needed parallel. Some of the statute's decrees (terminazioni) were applied to the entire Venetian territory, thus being not only of local importance but also a s table ground for further understanding of the Koper fraternity activities. The statute of the fraternily of St. Barbara in Split is given additional importance by the fact that no such statute of the homonymous fraternity in Koper has so far been discovered. Considering the position that Koper enjoyed in the Venetian administration as the center of the Venetian Istria, the fraternity of St. Barbara in Koper, of which there is evidence in some of the documents preserved, had to be of greal importance, particularly as there was a considerable number of bombardiers involved in it (from 100 to 250) whom the chiefs (podesta) and captains in Koper regularly mentioned in their reports to the Venetian senate.