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Pilot (Serbian Cyrillic: Пилот, Old Church Slavonic: Пилоть, Latin: Polatum, Pulati) was a župa (county) of Serbia in the Middle Ages. It was located in the area between Shkodër and the Koritnik mountain, north of the county of Raban (Arbanon). Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja (r. 1166–96) conquered Pilot during his southern campaign, after taking over Zeta (Duklja). The county was mentioned in a charter of Nemanja, including his personal reflection about his lands, calling them his "grandfatherland", which he renewed and received from God; from Arbanon, Pilot was taken. It was an important region of Serbia, part of the network of roads between Zeta and Old Serbia.
Russian ambassador and historian Ivan Jastrebov (1839–1894) identified Pilot as the Dukagjin highlands.