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Kotor is a coastal town in Montenegro, which has a long maritime trade history, and is home to Montenegro's sole naval faculty. Thus, since most of Montenegro's educated merchant seamen come from Kotor, the city has emerged as a recruitment ground for sailors tasked with smuggling cocaine on cargo ships, on a South America - Europe route.
In June 2021, the first and only public aquarium in Montenegro, Aquarium Boka, was opened in Kotor. [30] It is the organizational unit of the Institute for Marine Biology of the University of Montenegro , a unique institution in Montenegro that combines research and education to promote and practice the efficient conservation of marine wildlife ...
Cafe del Montenegro (CdM), Montenegrin in the Latin alphabet; Portal Analitika, Montenegrin in the Latin alphabet; The Montenegro Times, first English newspaper. See themontenegrotimes.com; The Montenegro Times, first Russian news website. See mntimes.me
Coastal Montenegro (Montenegrin: Primorje Crne Gore / Приморје Црне Горе), is one of three statistical regions in Montenegro. It encompasses the coastal part of Montenegro . It is bordered by Central region to the north, Albania to the east, Adriatic Sea to the south, Croatia to the west, and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest.
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Montenegro. 14 March – 2021 Montenegrin municipal elections. [1] 5 September - Clashes in the city of Cetinje following inauguration of Serb Orthodox Church leader Joanikije II. [2]
Kotor was home to a notable naval academy, the Scuola Nautica. [18] The fleet peaked at 300 ships in the 18th century, when Boka was a rival to Dubrovnik and Venice. During the Austro-Hungarian period, the Bay of Kotor produced the majority of sea captains of the Österreichischer Lloyd shipping company. [19]
Municipal elections were held in Montenegro on 30 August 2020 in Andrijevica, Budva, Gusinje, Kotor and Tivat.. Elections for the Tivat local parliament were scheduled for 24 April, but were postponed to August, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Montenegro, so that elections in all five municipalities were held on 30 August, the same date as the national-level parliamentary elections.
The castle St. John (San Giovanni) and the western hillside wall. The medieval part of the town of Kotor is located on a triangular piece of land that is bordered by the most inner extension of the Bay of Kotor at its south-western side, the river Skurda toward the North, and the mountain of St. John (San Giovanni) towards the East.