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DULCIGNO (Servian, Ultsin, Turk. Olgun)

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DULCIGNO (Servian, Ultsin, Turk. Olgun)

DULCIGNO (Servian, Ultsin, Turk. Olgun) , a seaport of See also:

MONTENEGRO

Montenegro, on the Adriatic See also:

Sea, 8 m. W. of the Albanian frontier. Pop. (1900) about 5000. Shut in by hills and forests, and built partly on a promontory overlooking its See also:

bay, partly along the See also:

SHORE

shore, Dulcigno is the .prettiest of Montenegrin towns. Its narrow crooked lanes, however, with its bazaars, mosques, minarets and veiled See also:

WOMEN

women, give to its picturesqueness a 'decidedly See also:

TURKISH

Turkish See also:

air. The old See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter, on the promontory, is walled, and has a See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

castle, once of See also:

GREAT

great strength. See also:

TURKS

Turks See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the bulk of the inhabitants, although their See also:

numbers decreased steadily after r88o, when the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population numbered about 8000. Albanians and Italians are fairly numerous. Dulcigno has a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral and an See also:

ancient Latin See also:

church. The See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

Lloyd steamers See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call at intervals, and some See also:

SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding and fishing are carried on; but the See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour lacks shelter and is liable to deposits of silt.

To the See also:

Romans, who captured it in 167 B.C., Dulcigno was known as Ulcinium or Olcinium; in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle ages it was a noted haunt of pirates; in the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it was the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of Sabbatai Zebi (d. 1676), a See also:

JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew who declared himself to be the See also:

MESSIAH (Dan. x. 25, 26)

Messiah but afterwards embraced See also:

ISLAM

Islam. In 1718 Dulcigno was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a great Venetian defeat. It belonged to the Turks until r88o, when its cession, according to the terms of the treaty of See also:

Berlin (1878), was enforced by the " Dulcigno demonstration," in which the fleets of Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, See also:

France, See also:

Germany, See also:

Austria and See also:

Russia took See also:

PART

part.

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