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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. [21] The town of Kotor itself has 1,360 inhabitants, but the administrative limits of the town encompass only the area of the Old Town.
Kotor Municipality (Montenegrin and Serbian: 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 .
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]
Saint Eustace Church in Dobrota. Dobrota (Montenegrin and Serbian: Доброта) is a town in the municipality of Kotor, Montenegro.. Although administratively a separate settlement, it is de facto a part of Kotor as it encompasses most of Kotor's residential area, while the settlement of Kotor administratively encompasses only the town's historical core.
Herceg Novi (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Херцег Нови, pronounced [xěrtseɡ nôviː]) is a town in Coastal region of Montenegro located at the Western entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants.
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, and Filip Vujanović, President of Montenegro, in Moscow, 2010.. A poll in July 2015 from the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, which received financial support from NATO, found that 36.6 percent supported membership, to 37.3 percent against, with sharp divisions between ethnic groups: 71.2 percent of Montenegrin Albanians and 68 percent of ...
Sveti Đorđe in Bay of Kotor (on the left) St. George Island (Sveti Đorđe) Sveti Đorđe Island (Montenegrin: Острво Свети Ђорђе, romanized: Ostrvo Sveti Đorđe, lit. 'Island of Saint George') is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro (the other being Gospa od Škrpjela).
Fort Gorazda (Montenegrin: Tvrđava Goražda/Тврђава Гораждa, German: Thurmfort Gorazda) is a fortification built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire near Kotor in Montenegro. The current fort was built between 1884–86 and replaced an earlier structure on the same site; its most notable feature is a 100-ton Gruson rotating turret on ...