Verige

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Verige
Verige Strait seen from above Risan
The Verige Strait from above Risan seen from
Connects waters inner bay of Kotor
with water Tivat Bay
Separates land mass Vrmac
of land mass Foreland of the Orjen
Data
Geographical location 42 ° 28 '7 "  N , 18 ° 40' 55"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 28 '7 "  N , 18 ° 40' 55"  E
Verige (Montenegro)
Verige
length 2.3 km
Smallest width 340 m
Greatest depth 37 m
Coastal towns Lepetane , Kamenari
View from the church of Sv. Nedjelja in Kamenari on Verige Street (Perast in the background, Lepetane on the right)
View from the church of Sv. Nedjelja in Kamenari on Verige Street ( Perast in the background , Lepetane on the right)

Verige ( Serbian - Cyrillic Вериге ) is a 2.3 km long and at its narrowest point 340 m wide strait in the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro . It separates the Vrmac peninsula in the east from the foreland of the Orjen in the west. Its name is traced back to the fact that it was blocked by a chain ( verigama ) to prevent Ottoman ships from entering the inner bay.

Emergence

Verige Street is the former narrowest point of the Bokeljska reka (German Boka River ), a karst river from the Orjen that has now disappeared and cut deeply into the landscape. In the soft flysch layers , the river widened the valley and deposited fluvial sediments . He cut deep gorges into the hard limestone ridges, today characterized by the peaks of Sveti Ilija on Vrmac and Devesilje on the west side of Verige Street. When the sea level rose by about 100 m at the end of the Würm glacial period , the river valley was filled with sea water.

colonization

Both banks of Verige Street are populated. On the west side is Kamenari , in the vicinity of which reddish limestone was quarried for buildings in the vicinity as well as in Venice and Odessa . Opposite, on the coast of the Vrmac peninsula, is Lepetane . A car ferry connects both places. Plans to build a bridge have not yet been implemented.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Damir Magaš: Natural-Geographic Characteristics of the Boka Kotorska Area as the Basis of Development (PDF; 545 kB). In: Geoadria . Volume 7, No. 1, 2002, pp. 51-81 (English)
  2. ↑ Ivan Crkvenčić, Antun Schaller: Boka Kotorska: društveno-političke promjene i razvoj etničkog sastava do 1918. godine (PDF; 139 kB). In: Hrvatski geografski glasnik . Volume 67, No. 2, 2005, pp. 107–122 (Serbo-Croatian)