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unusual facts about Herceg Novi


Risto Kovačić

Upon graduation, he became a professor at a gymnasium in Kotor and at a Serbian Naval School in Herceg Novi, from 1867 until 1871 and again from 1880 to 1881.


Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Tvrtko I of Bosnia

He built, and in 1382 opened the ports of Brstanik near Počitelj and Sveti Stefan, now known as Herceg Novi in Bay of Kotor Monte Negro as a line of defence from Dubrovnik and Kotor.

Veljko Milatović

Veljko Milatović (Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић) (born 5 December 1921 in Nikšić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – died 19 October 2004 in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and the other time as President.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

Žarko Vukčević

Born in Herceg Novi, Vukčević moved to Titograd at a young age and started playing football for the youth side of FK Budućnost Titograd.


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