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Tivat (Serb. Tivat/Tivat, Italian. Theodo, Greek. Thiodhos) is a city in Montenegro. Located on the shores of Boka Bay of the Adriatic sea. The city is located on a Peninsula Vrmac, on the southern slope of the eponymous mountain range.

Presumably, Tivat, was founded in the III century BC it is believed that the name of the city comes from the name of the Illyrian Queen Teuta.

In the Middle ages the fertile lands surrounding Tivat belonged to patrician families, who had acquired large estates.

In XIV—XV centuries Tivat was an important religious centre as in the monastery of the Archangel Michael, located on the Island of Flowers near the city (the so-called Michalska Prevlaka), the thirteenth century was the residence of the Orthodox Metropolitan of Zeta.

From 1420 to Tivat, like many other towns of Boka Kotorska, became part of the Venetian Republic as part of the province of "Albania Veneta" under the Italian name theodo (Theodo).

In subsequent centuries, the fate of Tivat did not differ from the fate of the whole of Boka Kotorska — the Venetian domination until 1797, a short period of French rule in part of the Illyrian provinces, the Austrian rule until 1918, becoming a part of Jugoslavija its collapse. Currently, the city is a part of modern Montenegro.

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