Podgorica

Podgorica lies where the Ribnica joins the Morača, on the northern edge of the Zeta plain. Its name appears in a document from Kotor in 1326, when merchants linked the town to the Adriatic coast. In the later fifteenth century the Ottomans fortified the height above the rivers, building a castle and mosque under Sultan Mehmed II. Podgorica became a frontier stronghold facing the mountain communities beyond the plain.