Krašići ( Montenegrin: Крашићи) is a settlement in the

Tivat Municipality Tivat Municipality (Serbo-Croatian: Opština Tivat / Општина Тиват) is the smallest municipalities of Montenegro, municipality in Montenegro by area, situated in the Bay of Kotor. The center of the municipality is the eponymous town, T ...

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, located on the

Luštica Luštica (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin: Луштица, ) is a peninsula on the south Adriatic Sea, located at the entrance of the Bay of Kotor ( or ''Boka'') in southwestern Montenegro. It effectively separates Tivat Bay from the Adriatic. ...

peninsula in the

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Geography

Krašići is located on the Luštica peninsula, on the southern shore of the Bay of Tivat in the

, between the villages of

Tičići Tičići (Cyrillic: Тичићи) is a village in the municipality of Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the B ...

and Radovići. Old Krašići was located at mountain side, a few kilometers from its present location. This place is now called Gornji Krašići (Upper Krašići) or Stari Krašići (Old Krašići) and current village is sometimes called Donji Krašići (Lower Krašići).

History

The village

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is still located in the old village. Villagers lived mostly from planting

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s and

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s and producing

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and

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. After the great

1979 Montenegro earthquake The 1979 Montenegro earthquake occurred on 15 April at 06:19 UTC with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). It was the most devastating earthquake in SR Montenegro, then part of Yugoslavia,(Montenegrin)C ...

, the village was heavily damaged and people have resettled on the current location at sea shore, which was prior to the earthquake used for small-scale

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. In addition to their former occupations, they increased fishing, and, recently,

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. In the 1970s, some tourists started building houses around the village in larger numbers. This boomed and now they by far outnumber locals. The first tourist settlement is ''Krašići 1''; after it, ''Krašići 2'' was built. Tourists have also built the

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(which was a stony beach before that), streets and infrastructure in the settlement. Currently it has

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and

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and from not too long ago a functioning sewer and water system. Houses in Krašići 1 and 2 are self-built by tourists; but after noticing the popularity of this location, the construction company ''Šumadija'' built a planned settlement in 1980 which is now called ''Krašići 2/2'' (former Krašići 2 is now called ''Krašići 2/1'') or sometimes ''Krašići - Šumadija'' or ''Krašići - Maslinjak'' (''Maslinjak'' -

plantation; because it is built in place of one). After that some people have self-built houses in ''Krašići 3''.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the village had 130 inhabitants, 33,85% Montenegrins, 20,77% Serbs and 20,77% Croats.Moststat, zvanični rezultati popisa, 2011
/ref> The only families which lived in the old, Gornji Krašići village, were ''Francisković'', ''Slavović'' and ''Petrović''. It was the only

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village on

. Original Krašići has some 150 houses; now, in addition to that, there are several big five star

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held by locals. Krašići 2/1 has around 800 houses. Houses in Krašići 1 and 2 are self-built by tourists.

Tourism

The village

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has a

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depicting the battle of Lepetane which was taken from the church in the old village. The village has one

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, with a navigational light, which encloses a small

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; there is one more smaller harbour in the village. The beach is

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with

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, with a number of beach bars.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krasici Populated places in Bay of Kotor Populated places in Tivat Municipality Coastal towns in Montenegro