Bjelotina
| Bjelotina | ||
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| Highest peak | Katunica ( 1125 m. I. J. ) | |
| location | On the Bay of Kotor | |
| part of | Orjen massif , Dinarides | |
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 31 ' N , 18 ° 27' E | |
| particularities | The tri-border region of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croatia - Montenegro | |
The Bjelotina is a mountain above the Bay of Kotor in the border triangle of Montenegro with Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . Its main peak is the Katunica ( 1125 m. I. J. ).
Location and summit
The Bjelotina is a mountain ridge above the Croatian Konavle at the southern end of the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea and the Montenegrin Herceg Novi in the Bay of Kotor .
The main peak is the conical Katunica with 1125 m. i. J. in the Montenegrin part. Above the village of Vodovađa near Gruda - directly on the border - is the day care center ( 1089 m. I. J. ). The Gradac rises to the south ( 1073 m. I. J. ).
Towards the Konavle, the mountain breaks off steeply to the west, thus forming the Adriatic flank of the Dinaric high karst. To the north-west, the Sniježnica connects to Konavoska , to the north-east, across Sitnica in the Vrbanje plateau, the Orjen main floor is another step. The border triangle with the Bosnian-Herzegovinian border is also there at the Sitnica border crossing . To the south, the ridge runs down to Sutorina . The ridge of the Mandelovina connects to the Debeli Brijeg border pass , with a maximum height of 450 m. i. J. further forms the Croatian-Montenegrin border and runs out towards Cape Kobila and the Prevlaka peninsula with Cape Oštra , the two right bank entrance headlands of the Bay of Kotor.
history
The Bergstock forms the historical border area of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Cattaro (Kotor), which were Venetian from the 13th (Ragusa) and 15th centuries (Cattaro) , it was only established as a border in the Ottoman era in the 17th century . The eastern Sutorina valley formed a corridor as a sea access for Herzegovina , so Bjelotina was the (Croatian-) Dalmatian- (Bosnian-) Herzegovinian border .
In the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the mountain was fought over between the Croatian and Serbian forces. There are still military installations here and the area is considered dangerous to enter.
Even after the war, the mountain was diplomatically controversial; the boundary between the orographic ridges was not negotiated between the Yugoslav republics until 1947. Therefore, the Republika Srpska made claims on Montenegro on Sutorina. The border at Debeli brijeg was only finally determined with a contract at the Western Balkans Conference on August 24, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sniježnica Konavoska ili dubrovačka Sniježnica. ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Section Bjelotina 1.125m. dinarskogorje.com, accessed March 11, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Konavle - Turistička Karta - Tourist map. Map on dominicus.malleotus.free.fr (accessed March 10, 2015).
- ↑ Nedim Tuno, Admir Mulahusić, Mithad Kozličić, Zvonko Orešković: Border reconstruction of the Sutorina exit of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Adriatic Sea by using old maps. onA (PDF, ddomusic.com, accessed April 25, 2013).
- ^ Bosnian claims to the Bay of Kotor. Report, Adelheid Wölfl, in: der Standard online, January 30, 2015
- ^ Montenegro-Bosnia border treaty signed in Vienna. In: Salzburger Nachrichten online, August 26, 2015, accessed on September 1, 2015.
