| The proper name of this country, Crna Gora, translates as Montenegro in Italian or Black Mountain in English. From the 16th through the 18th centuries Venice controlled part of the coast of Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire controlled most of the interior. Montenegro emerged from the Empire as an independent principality in the 1850s. It became part of the federation of Yugoslavia after World War I. When Yugoslavia fell apart in 1992 Montnegro remained in a smaller federation with Serbia. The country declared its independence from Serbia in June 2006 following a favorable vote in a referendum several weeks earlier. Montenegro is a member of NATO and expects to join the European Union by 2028 Montenegro has about 90 km (55 mi) of coastline on the Adriatic Sea between Croatia to the north and Albania to the south. Bar, near the center of this coast, is the chief international port, although there are minor port facilities at Budva in the north and Ulcinj in the south. The Montenegrin language can be written in either the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets, although the Latin alphabet is now preferred. As in Croatian the word for a lighthouse is svjetionik. The word rt is a cape or promontory, otok or otočić is an island, hrid is a rock, pličina is a shoal, zaljev is a bay, rijeka is a river, and luka is a port. Aids to navigation are maintained by the Maritime Safety Department (Uprava Pomorske Sigurnosti). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. MTL numbers are from the Table of Lights, the official Montenegro light list, as provided by the Department for Hydrography and Oceanography, Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro. Admiralty numbers are from volume E of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.
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![]() Bar Marina South Mole Light, Bar, August 2019 photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger; used by permission |
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![]() Turski Light, Tivat, July 2023 ex-Google Maps photo by Ewa Ewa |
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Posted October 10, 2006. Checked and revised January 10, 2026. Lighthouses: 13. Site copyright 2026 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.