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Prevlaka Island is located near the town of Tivat, in the Bay of Kotor. The island is 300 m long and 200 m wide. It is connected with mainland by a narrow isthmus.

The island was the residence of the metropolitan of Zeta’s diocese was from 13th to the 15th century. It was a tourist resort for the military personnel, closed for general public in SFRY. It is today populated with about a hundred people, mainly living in the bungalows.

The Prevlaka Island is not to be confused with Prevlaka Peninsula, also located in the Bay of Kotor, but belonging to Croatia.

On Prevlaka island, there is also a famous Monastery of St. Archangel Michail, which is undergoing a restoration. Todays monastery sits on nearly the same location which occupied the previous one which was destroyed by Venetian Republic in 1441, after it was proclaimed to be off limits due to the rumors of a plague breakout. Recent inquires, on Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, using recovered remains of monks from that time have revealed that monks died probably due to the arsenic poisoning.