Dobrota
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Dobrota
Доброта | |
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Town | |
Dobrota | |
Coordinates:42°27′14″N18°46′05″E/ 42.454°N 18.768°E | |
Country | Montenegro |
Municipality | ![]() |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 8,189 |
Time zone | UTC+1(CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2(CEST) |
Postal code | 85331 |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Iglesia_de_San_Eustace%2C_Dobrota%2C_Bah%C3%ADa_de_Kotor%2C_Montenegro%2C_2014-04-19%2C_DD_09.jpg/270px-Iglesia_de_San_Eustace%2C_Dobrota%2C_Bah%C3%ADa_de_Kotor%2C_Montenegro%2C_2014-04-19%2C_DD_09.jpg)
Dobrota(MontenegrinandSerbian:Доброта) is a town in themunicipalityofKotor,Montenegro.
Although administratively a separate settlement, it isde factoa 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. It gained somewhat of a notoriety among the locals, as the home of Montenegro's onlypsychiatric hospital.
Demographics
[edit]Nationality | Number |
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Montenegrins | 4,550 |
Croats | 1,535 |
Serbs | 1,067 |
Yugoslavs | 51 |
ethnic Muslims | 35 |
Albanians | 32 |
Macedonians | 14 |
Hungarians | 14 |
Russians | 14 |
Roma | 11 |
Italians | 9 |
Germans | 7 |
Slovenes | 7 |
Egyptians | 5 |
Bosniaks | 3 |
Others | 57 |
Undefined/Undeclared | 801 |
Regional Affiliation | 42 |
Unknown | 37 |
Total | 8,291 |
Geography
[edit]Dobrota is situated in the vicinity of the old town of Kotor towards the mountain and peninsula of Vrmac and the town of Prčanj. The town stretches from Kotor to the village of Ljuta, and the river of the same name in the north, where the northern border of the city of Kotor is located, in the length of 7 kilometers.
History
[edit]Dobrota is first mentioned in the Archives of Kotor in the year1260AD, asDabrathum,and afterwards asDobrotha,from which the modern name derives. The town experienced its own renaissance in the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries when it had the mostshipsin thebay.Njegošconsidered theRoman Catholicsin the town asSerbs,writing to them the poemA Serb thanks the Serbs in honour.
People from Dobrota
[edit]- Dragutin Radimir(1889–1983), Forestry Engineer
References
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[edit]Media related toDobrotaat Wikimedia Commons