Dobrota (
Montenegrin and
Serbian: Доброта) is a town in the
municipality
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of
Kotor
Kotor ( Montenegrin Cyrillic: Котор, ), historically known as Cattaro (from Italian: ), is a coastal town in Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,510 and is the administrative ...
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Although administratively a separate settlement, it is ''de facto'' a 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 only
psychiatric hospital
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Demographics
Geography
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
Dobrota is first mentioned in the
Archive
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s of Kotor in the year
1260
Year 1260 ( MCCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Africa
* October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who sei ...
AD, as ''Dabrathum'', and afterwards as ''Dobrotha'', from which the modern name derives. The town experienced its own renaissance in the
seventeenth and the
nineteenth centuries when it had the most
ships in the
bay. Njegoš considered the
Roman Catholics in the town as
Serbs
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
, writing to them the poem ''A Serb thanks the Serbs in honour.''
References
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Populated places in Bay of Kotor
Populated places in Kotor Municipality