Sutorina dispute

The Sutorina dispute was a border dispute between Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the sovereignty over the territory of Sutorina. Between the Berlin Congress of 1878 and the aftermath of World War II in 1947, the territory of Sutorina was a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina within Austria-Hungary and the first Yugoslavia, but then became part of the SR Montenegro within second Yugoslavia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the territory was controlled by Montenegro, but some Bosnian officials have claimed that the territory transfer was illegal, disputing Montenegrin sovereignty over the area. In 2015, two countries reached an agreement which gives the sovereignty over the territory to Montenegro.

The 5 nmi (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) long coast on the west side of the entrance to the Boka Kotorska, from Cape Kobila to Igalo, known generally as Sutorina, includes the Sutorina valley including 6 towns and villages: Igalo, Sutorina, Sušćepan, Prijevor, Ratiševina and Kruševice, an area of 75 km².

Cape Kobila was the boundary between Sutorina and Prevlaka (Konavle) under the control of the Republic of Ragusa since 1699.

This outlet to the sea was the subject of two international treaties: the 1699 Treaty of Carlowitz assigned the region (as well as Neum) to the Ottoman Empire's Bosnia Eyalet (thereby cordoning off the Republic of Ragusa from the Republic of Venice), an arrangement that was subsequently confirmed by the Congress of Berlin in 1878, when it became part of the Austro-Hungarian occupied Bosnia. After World War I, it became part of the Mostar Oblast of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and subsequently the Trebinje district of the Zeta Banovina within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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