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See also:DULCIGNO (Servian, Ultsin, Turk. Olgun)
, a seaport of See also:Montenegro, on the Adriatic See also:Sea, 8 m
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W. of the Albanian frontier
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Pop
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(1900) about 5000
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Shut in by hills and forests, and built partly on a promontory overlooking its See also:bay, partly along the See also:shore, See also:Dulcigno is the .prettiest of Montenegrin towns
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Its narrow crooked lanes, however, with its bazaars, mosques, minarets and veiled See also:women, give to its picturesqueness a 'decidedly See also:Turkish See also:air
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The old See also:quarter, on the promontory, is walled, and has a See also:medieval See also:castle, once of See also:great strength
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See also:Turks See also:form the bulk of the inhabitants, although their See also:numbers decreased steadily after r88o, when the See also:population numbered about 8000
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Albanians and Italians are fairly numerous
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Dulcigno has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:cathedral and an See also:ancient Latin See also: 1676), a See also:Jew who declared himself to be the See also:Messiah but afterwards embraced See also:Islam . In 1718 Dulcigno was the See also:scene of a great Venetian defeat . It belonged to the Turks until r88o, when its cession, according to the terms of the treaty of See also:Berlin (1878), was enforced by the " Dulcigno demonstration," in which the fleets of Great See also:Britain, See also:France, See also:Germany, See also:Austria and See also:Russia took See also:part . |
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