Boka Kotorska - Bay of Kotor, Queen Teuta of Illyria, Venetian Albania, Prevlaka, Porto Montenegro, Miroslav Gospels, Vitomir Luki?, Ivan Visin (Paperback)

Chapters: Bay of Kotor, Queen Teuta of Illyria, Venetian Albania, Prevlaka, Porto Montenegro, Miroslav Gospels, Vitomir Luki?, Ivan Visin, Ivo Gugi?. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Bay of Kotor ( Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian: Boka Kotorska, Cyrillic script: ) in south-western Montenegro and south-eastern Croatia, is a winding bay on the Adriatic Sea. The bay, sometimes called Europe's southernmost fjord, is in fact a submerged river canyon of the disintegrated Bokelj River which used to run from the high mountain plateaus of Mount Orjen. It is an important tourist attraction in Montenegro. The Verige strait represent the narrowest section of the bay and is located between Cape St. Nedjelja and Cape Opatovo; it separates the inner bay east of the strait from the remainder and belongs to the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, A World Heritage Site. Montenegro is planning to build a bridge that would span the strait, the so called Verige bridge. The bay has been inhabited since antiquity and has some well preserved medieval towns. The picturesque towns of Kotor, Risan, Tivat, Perast, Herceg Novi and Budva along with their natural surroundings, are major tourist attractions. The religious heritage of the land around the bay its numerous Orthodox and Catholic Christian churches and monasteries makes it one of the major pilgrimage sites of the region. The nearby hamlet of Risan was a thriving Illyrian city called Rhizon as early as 229 BC and gave its name to the bay, then known as Rhizonicus Sinus. Queen Teuta of Illyria retired from Shkodra to Rhizon. Rhizon eventually submitted to Rome in 168 BC, at the same time that Acrivium, or Acruvium, the modern Kotor, is first mentioned as a neighboring city. Kotor has been fortified sin...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=84135