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Kotor

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Kotor, Montenegro/Serbia and Montenegro Acruvium?, Catarum, Cattaro Certainly a small fortified settlement in Roman times with a sheep‐fold (in Serbo‐Croat tor) which in due course became known as Kotor from kod tor ‘by, or near, the sheep‐fold’. It took the present Slav form of its name in the 11th century, the Slavs having arrived on the Adriatic coast in the 7th century. Between c.1196 and 1371 it was subject to the early Serbian state and in 1391–1420 it was an independent city‐republic. It also gives its name to the Gulf of Kotor.

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Kotor

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Kotor , Ital. Cattaro, town (1991 pop. 5,620), SE Montenegro, on the Bay of Kotor, an inlet of the Adriatic. It is a seaport and a tourist center. The town was colonized by Greeks (3d cent. BC) and later belonged to the Roman and Byzantine empires. In 1797 it passed to Austria and became an important naval base; in 1918 it was transferred to Yugoslavia and was included in the constituent republic of Montenegro after World War II. It has a medieval fort and town walls and a 16th-century cathedral. As the oldest town in Montenegro, it is a state-protected historical monument.

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