Land

Inland from the Adriatic coast of Montenegro, where Kotor, the one remaining seaport of Yugoslavia, is found, is the barren karst region of Montenegro proper, which lies in the southern end of the Dinaric Alps. Lake Scutari, the nation's largest lake, is at the southern end of the karst and forms part of the Albanian border. The karst region is separated by the Zeta River and its plain from the higher, largely mountainous regions of the rest of western and southern Yugoslavia. The northeast, in Serbia, is part of the fertile Danubian plain and is traversed by the Danube and its tributaries—the Drava, the Sava, the Morava, the Timok, and the Tisza (Serb. Tisa). In addition to the two republics of Serbia and Montenegro, there are two provinces, Kosovo and Vojvodina. The chief cities of Yugoslavia are Belgrade, Podgorica, Niš, and Novi Sad.

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The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press.

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