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Podgorica (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 42 28 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 42.4667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 019 17 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 19.2833 decimal degrees |
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Note: SW area of Republic; feudal state capital in early Middle Ages; Turkish after 1474, restored to Montenegro in 1878; occupied by Austria in 1916; taken by Italians in 1941; German in 1943; WW II destroyed majority of old city. |
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| Podgorica (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name used 1326-1946, now is reinstated |
| Podgoritsa (C,O)
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| Titograd (H,V)
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............ | used in 1946, referring to Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito |
| Ribinica (H,V)
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............ | early Middle Ages |
| Birsinium (H,O)
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............ | Roman |
| Birziminium (H,O)
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............ | Roman |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first thought to have been an Illyrian tribal center, later a Roman caravan stop called Birziminium |
| town (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| cultural center (C) |
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