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Country
  
Montenegro

Commune
  
Krajina

Municipality
  
Bar

Bobovište, Bar

Bobovište (Albanian: Boboshti; Montenegrin and Serbian Cyrillic: Бобовиште) is a village in Bar Municipality, in southeastern Montenegro. It lies on the western bank of Lake Skadar, in a geographical region known as Skadarska Krajina.

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Map of Bobovi%C5%A1te, Montenegro

History

Prior to the village population's conversion to Islam, they had used the nearby Orthodox Moračnik Monastery as their church. In 1894, while Branislav Nušić travelled here, he noted that the village was Muslim.

Demographics

As of 2003 the village had a population of 230. All of the inhabitants are Sunni Muslim. The average age of the population is 43.1.

References

Bobovište, Bar Wikipedia