Dobrota

For the village in Prahova County, Romania, see Gornet-Cricov.

Dobrota Доброта
Town
Dobrota
Dobrota Location within Montenegro
Coordinates:
Country	Montenegro
Region	Coastal
Municipality	Kotor
Population  (2011)
• Total	8,189
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	85331

Saint Eustace Church in Dobrota

Dobrota (Montenegrin and Serbian: Доброта) is a town in the municipality of Kotor, Montenegro.

Although administratively a separate settlement, it is de facto a part of Kotor as it encompasses most of Kotor's residential area, while the settlement of Kotor administratively encompasses only the town's historical core. It gained somewhat of a notoriety among the locals, as the home of Montenegro's only psychiatric hospital.

Demographics

Nationality	Number
Montenegrins	4,550
Croats	1,535
Serbs	1,067
Yugoslavs	51
ethnic Muslims	35
Albanians	32
Macedonians	14
Hungarians	14
Russians	14
Roma	11
Italians	9
Germans	7
Slovenes	7
Egyptians	5
Bosniaks	3
Others	57
Undefined/Undeclared	801
Regional Affiliation	42
Unknown	37
Total	8,291

Geography

Dobrota is situated in the vicinity of the old town of Kotor towards the mountain and peninsula of Vrmac and the town of Prčanj. The town stretches from Kotor to the village of Ljuta, and the river of the same name in the north, where the northern border of the city of Kotor is located, in the length of 7 kilometers.

History

Dobrota is first mentioned in the Archives of Kotor in the year 1260 AD, as Dabrathum, and afterwards as Dobrotha, from which the modern name derives. The town experienced its own renaissance in the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries when it had the most ships in the bay. Njegoš considered the Roman Catholics in the town as Serbs, writing to them the poem A Serb thanks the Serbs in honour.

People from Dobrota

• Dragutin Radimir (1889–1983), Forestry Engineer

External links

• Media related to Dobrota at Wikimedia Commons