Kotor

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The Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor is located in Boka Kotorska Bay, on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro. Town of Kotor, which is, due to its environmental, cultural and historical values, listed under UNESCO protection, has a population of 22 900. Old Town Kotor is situated at the foot of the mount Lovćen. Although there is material evidence that people lived in the immediate vicinity of the present historical center in the 6th century BC, the first records of the town of Kotor date from the 1st century AD. In the north it is bordered by the river Škurda. From the south and west by the sea and the swirling exsurgence of Gurdić the submarine spring. The name itself, in the Greek variant Decaterum, appears setek in records from the 7th century. The outstanding universal value of the culturo-historical region of Kotor is embodied in the quality of the architecture in its fortified and open cities, settlements, palaces and monastic ensembles, and their harmonious integration to the cultivated terraced landscape on the slopes of high rocky mountains. The natural and culturo-historical Region of Kotor bears unique testimony to the exceptionally important role that it played over centuries in the spreading of Mediterranean cultures into the Balkans.
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