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PODGORITSA (Croatian, Podgorica)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PODGORITSA (Croatian, Podgorica) , the largest See also:town in See also:Montenegro; on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Moracha, and in a fertile valley which strikes inland for 18 m. from the shores of See also:Lake See also:Scutari to the mountains of central and eastern Montenegro. Pop. (1900), about 5500. Spread out on a perfectly See also:flat See also:plain, Podgoritsa has two distinct parts: the picturesque See also:Turkish See also:quarter, with its mosques and ruined ramparts, and the Montenegrin quarter, built since 1877, and containing a See also:prison and an agricultural See also:college. These quarters are separated by the river Ribnitsa, a tributary of the Moracha. A See also:fine old Turkish See also:bridge crosses the See also:main stream. Podgoritsa receives from the eastern plains and the See also:north-eastern See also:highlands a See also:great quantity of See also:tobacco, See also:fruit, cereals, See also:honey, See also:silk, livestock and other commodities, which it distributes through Plavnitsa, its See also:port on Lake Scutari, and through Riyeka to See also:Cettigne and See also:Cattaro. After being captured from See also:Turkey in 1877, Podgoritsa was in 1878 recognized as Montenegrin territory by the Treaty of See also:Berlin.

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