Kolašin
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Kolašin (Cyrillic: Колашин, ) is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 2,989 (2003 census). Kolašin is the centre of Kolašin Municipality (population 9,949) and an unofficial centre of Morača region, named after Morača River.
Key facts
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- Kolašin
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- Колашин
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.settlement_type
- Town and municipality
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- Kolašin Town Center.jpg
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- Main town square in Kolašin
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- Location of Kolašin in Montenegro.
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- Montenegro
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- Location of Kolašin in Montenegro <!--
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- 42.823800
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- 19.52374 -->
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name
- Montenegro
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1
- Northern
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name2
- Kolašin
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- Founded
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.established_date
- 17th century
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Montenegro
- Located in
- Kolašin Municipality
- Population
- 8380
- Area
- 897
- Time zone
- Central European Time
- Capital of
- Kolašin Municipality
- Official website
- opstinakolasin.me
- Image
- Kolasin - Town view.JPG
- Licence plate code
- KL
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- mountain range
- Accursed Mountains
- Commons category
- Kolašin
- topic's main category
- Category:Kolašin
- category for people born here
- Q8058600
- postal code
- 81210
- twinned administrative body
- Prijepolje
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Kolašin (Cyrillic: Колашин, ) is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 2,989 (2003 census). Kolašin is the centre of Kolašin Municipality (population 9,949) and an unofficial centre of Morača region, named after Morača River.
==Etymology== Rebecca West wrote that the district was originally named Kol I Shen, which is Albanian for 'St. Nicholas', which was inhabited by Catholic Albanians who converted to Islam and who were expelled in 1858 by local tribes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolašin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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