The Vranjina Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Врањина, romanized: Manastir Vranjina), also known as the Monastery of St. Nicholas, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on the Vranjina island on Skadar Lake in Montenegro. The Vranjina monastery with its church dedicated to Saint Nicholas was one of the oldest monasteries in Montenegro, but it was completely destroyed in attacks during the 19th century.
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Vranjina is a settlement, island, and a hill in Lake Skadar, in the new Zeta Municipality of Montenegro. Until 2022, it was part of Podgorica Municipality.
Until the first half of the 18th century, Vranjina like other islands of Skadar lake, was one of the hills in the Zeta–Skadar lowlands.
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The Morača is a major river in Montenegro that originates in the northern region in Kolašin Municipality under Mount Rzača. It meanders southwards for 99.5 km before emptying into Lake Skadar. Its drainage basin covers 3,257 km2.
In its upper flow the Morača is a fast mountain river. Just north of Podgorica it merges with its largest tributary, the Zeta, which it then cuts a rocky canyon before entering the Zeta plain. It flows through the surrounding flatland until it empties into Lake Skadar on the border with Albania. A shorter, much broader, meandering, approximately sea-level river, the Bojana, flows through the northwest corner of Albania until it drains into the Adriatic Sea at Ada Bojana.
Relative to other rivers of its length, the Morača is weak in volume. It is rarely more than 50 m wide and mostly shallow, so it is generally not navigable. Its canyon is a corridor for the main road leading from the Montenegrin Littoral to Podgorica, and then to northern Montenegro until it reaches Serbia. The road is considered impassable on foot.
It is one of the symbols, attractions and main notable physical geographical features of Podgorica, as it is the city's principal river. The Morača is also featured on some country symbols and flags.
The Morača monastery, which was founded in 1252 by Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić, is located just north of the river's canyon.
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Crmnica is one of the local communities of the municipality of Bar and a historical region in southern Montenegro. It was one of the four sub-regions of Old Montenegro, where it was known as Crmnička nahija.
It was rebuilt in 1886.
