Sutorina

Sutorina ( Serbian Cyrillic Суторина ) is a village in the west of Montenegro. It belongs politically to the municipality of Herceg Novi. Sutorina has 607 inhabitants (as of 2003).

History

Sutorina belonged in the Middle Ages to the city state of Ragusa. On January 26, 1699 Republic handed two coastal strip to the Ottoman Empire in order to protect themselves by land against the further advance of the Venetians: In the northwest coastal town of Neum, now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sutorina. Sutorina belonged to the annexation Herzegovina by Austria -Hungary, the Ottoman Empire. After the First World War, it was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After the Second World War, was briefly a part of the newly formed Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and formed next to Neum is the only access to the sea in the state. 1947 Sutorina was transferred to the other part of the Republic of Montenegro. Bosnia and Herzegovina received in return Montenegrin territories east of the River Sutjeska. Sutorina has remained a part of the independent state of Montenegro. But there are efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reclaim what Sutorina.

Population

According to the 2003 census Sutorina is mostly inhabited by Serbs.