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See also:CATTARO (Serbo-Croatian Kotor)
, the See also:chief See also:town of an administrative See also:district in See also:Dalmatia, See also:Austria
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Pop
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(1900) of town, 3021; of See also:commune, 5418
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See also:Cattaro occupies a narrow ledge between the Montenegrin Mountains and the Bocche di Cattaro, a winding and beautiful inlet of the Adriatic See also:Sea
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This inlet expands into five broad gulfs, See also:united by narrower channels, and forms one of the finest natural harbours in See also:Europe
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Teodo, on the outermost gulf, is a small See also:naval See also:port
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Cattaro is strongly fortified, and about 3000 troops are stationed in its neighbourhood
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On the seaward See also:side, the defensive See also:works include Castelnuovo (Erceg Novi), which See also:guards the See also:main entrance to the Bocche
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On the landward side, the See also:long walls See also:running from the town to the See also:castle of See also:San Giovanni, far above, See also:form a striking feature in the landscape; and the heights of the Krivoscie or Crevoscia (Krivosije), a See also:group of barren mountains between See also:Montenegro, Herzegovina and the sea, are crowned by small forts
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Cattaro is divided almost equally between the See also:Roman See also:Catholic and Orthodox See also:creeds
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It is the seat of a Roman Catholic See also:bishop, with a small See also:cathedral, a collegiate See also: See also:Foreign visitors to Montenegro usually See also:land at Cattaro, which is connected by steamer with See also:Trieste and by road with See also:Cettigne . The railway from See also:Ragusa terminates at Zelenika, near Castelnuovo . There are many interesting places on the shores of the Bocche . Castelnuovo is a picturesque town, with a dismantled 14th-See also:century citadel, which has, at various times, been occupied by Bosnians, See also:Turks, . Venetians, Spaniards, Russians, See also:French, See also:English and Austrians . The orthodox See also:convent of St Sava, See also:standing amid beautiful gardens, was founded in the 16th century, and contains many See also:fine specimens of 17th-century See also:silver-smiths' See also:work . There is a See also:Benedictine monastery on a small See also:island opposite to Perasto (Perast), 8 m. See also:east of Castelnuovo . Perasto itself was for a See also:time an See also:independent See also:state in the 14th century . Rhizon, the See also:modern See also:hamlet of Risano, See also:close by, was a thriving " Illyrian " See also:city as See also:early as 229 B.C., and gave its name to the Bocche, then known as Rhizonicus Sinus . Rhizon submitted to See also:Rome in 168 B.C., and about the same time Ascrivium, or Ascruvium, the modern Cattaro, is first mentioned as a neighbouring city .. Justinian built a fortress above Ascrivium in A.U . 535, after expelling the Goths, and a second town probably See also:grew up on the heights See also:round it, for See also:Constantine See also:Porphyry genitus, in the loth century, alludes to " See also:Lower Cattaro " (rb Karw Clesarepa) . The city was plundered by the . See also:Saracens in 84o, and by the Bulgarians in 1102 . In the next See also:year it was ceded to See also:Servia by the Bulgarian See also:tsar See also:Samuel, but revolted, in See also:alliance with Ragusa, and only submitted in 1184, as a protected state, preserving intact its republican institutions, and its right to conclude See also:treaties and engage in See also:war . It was already an episcopal see, and, in the 13th century, Dominican and Franciscan monasteries were established to check the spread of Bogomilism . In the 14th century the See also:commerce of Cattaro rivalled that of Ragusa, and provoked the See also:jealousy of See also:Venice . The downfall of Servia in 1389 See also:left the city without a See also:guardian, and, after being seized and abandoned by Venice and See also:Hungary in turn, it passed under Venetian See also:rule in 1420 . It was besieged by the Turks in 1538 and 1657, visited by See also:plague in 1572, and nearly destroyed by earthquakes in 1563 and 1667 . By the treaty of Campo-Formio in 1797 it passed to Austria; but in 18o5, by the treaty of See also:Pressburg, it was assigned to See also:Italy, and was united in 1810 with the French See also:empire . In 1814 it was restored to Austria by the See also:congress of See also:Vienna . The See also:attempt to enforce compulsory military service, made and abandoned in 1869, but finally successful in 1881, led to two See also:short-lived revolts among the Krivoscians, during which Cattaro was the See also:Austrian See also:head-quarters . See G . Gelcich (Gelcic), Memorie storiche sulle Bocche di Cattaro (See also:Zara, 188o) .
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