Dobrota

Dobrota
Доброта
Town
Dobrota
Dobrota
Dobrota is located in Montenegro
Dobrota
Dobrota
Location within Montenegro
Coordinates: 42°27′14″N 18°46′05″E / 42.454°N 18.768°E / 42.454; 18.768
CountryMontenegro
RegionCoastal
MunicipalityKotor
Population
 (2011)
 • Total8,189
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
85331
Saint Eustace Church in Dobrota

Dobrota (Montenegrin and Serbian: Доброта) is a town in the municipality of Kotor, Montenegro.

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.

Demographics

Nationality Number
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

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 Archives of Kotor in the year 1260 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, writing to them the poem A Serb thanks the Serbs in honour.

People from Dobrota

References

  • Media related to Dobrota at Wikimedia Commons