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The Bay of Kotor (Serbo-Croatian: Boka kotorska / Бока которска, Italian: Bocche di Cattaro), also known as the Boka (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Бока), [1] is a winding bay of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Montenegro and the region of Montenegro concentrated around the bay.
Kotor is the administrative centre of Kotor municipality, which includes the towns of Risan and Perast, as well as many small hamlets around the Bay of Kotor, and has a population of 21,916. [22] The town of Kotor itself has 1,360 inhabitants, but the administrative limits of the town encompass only the area of the Old Town.
Map of the Bay of Kotor in 1862. The southernmost tip of the Austro-Hungarian Empire included the area of the Bay of Kotor, which was used by the empire as a major naval base centred on the town of Kotor (known then as Cattaro). The hinterland behind the bay was controlled by the independent principality (later kingdom) of Montenegro, which ...
Tivat is located in the central part of the Bay of Kotor (Boka Kotorska, or simply "Boka"), south of mount Vrmac. The municipality lies mostly south of the town, and has an exit to open sea at the tourist location Pržno inlet near Radovići village to the south. Its central part, where Tivat Airport is located, lies in fertile Grbalj valley.
Risan (Montenegrin: Рисан, pronounced) is a town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro.It traces its origins to the ancient settlement of Rhizon, the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor.
The region that is included in the heritage is the inner bay of Kotor (past the Verige strait) with its surrounding mountains and towns, notably Risan and Perast in addition to Kotor. Further the islets of St. George (Sveti Đorđe) and Our Lady of the Rocks (Gospa od Škrpijela) are part of the heritage site.
Kotor Municipality (Montenegrin: Opština Kotor / Општина Котор) is one of the municipalities of Montenegro. Its administrative center is Kotor . This municipality is located in the southwestern part of Montenegro , and includes 56 recognized settlements, [ 2 ] as well as the innermost portion of the Bay of Kotor .
Formerly the Bay of Kotor was known as Sinus Rhizonicus and Rhizonic Gulf (Ancient Greek: Ῥιζονικὸς κόλπος) [5] after the name of Rhizon, the leading town in anticity of the bay. Rhizon had also its own protector, a deity called Medaurus, who was depicted as carrying a lance and riding on horseback. [6]