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History of Ulcinj


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population of the town. Descendents of those shipwreck survivors live in Ulcinj to this day.

The Venetians maintained control until 1571, when the Ottoman Turks conquered Dulcigno and the remainder of Albania Veneta. In 1867, Ulcinj became a kaza of the İşkodra sanjak of Rumeli veyalet. Ulcinj finally gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire on 11 January 1878 by the decision of the Berlin Congress, only to be occupied by Montenegro nearly three years later, on 30 November 1880

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