Alexander Raine
Crossroads of the Adriatic | A History of Ulcinj
A town of twenty thousand souls. Twenty-five centuries of history. Six different names.
On a rocky peninsula at the southern edge of Montenegro stands one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on the Adriatic — and one of the strangest stories in European history.
The most famous false messiah in Jewish history died within its walls. Sabbatai Zevi, who convinced a third of world Jewry that redemption had come, spent his last exile here and was buried in the town in 1676.…