Insel Mljet - Info
Sightseeing near Kozarica
Latitude
42° 45’ 47.6” NLongitude
17° 27’ 30.3” EDescription
The island of Mljet is the southernmost and most forested
islands of the Adriatic with lush vegetation, clear waters and a
rich underwater world.
The first inhabitants were Illyrians who came to Mljet from the
port of Prapratno on the Pelješac peninsula 4000 years ago and
built the first Slavic settlement "Vrhmljeće" above the present-day
village of Maranovići.
From this period, fortresses, walls and tombstones have been
preserved all over the island. The best preserved are located in
the National Park on the mountain Veliki Gradac, by the lake Veliko
Jezero in the west of the island and above the source of the
Vodice, near the place Babino Polje in the middle and south of the
island.
The island was mentioned in Greek writings as early as the 4th
century BC, and the numerous finds of Greek amphorae and sunken
ships near the coast testify that the Greek sailors stopped
here.
A mystical place - for here the nymph Calypso is said to have lived
and seduced the shipwrecked Odysseus and held him captive in her
cave on the southern coast near Babino Polje for seven years.
The Roman palace from the 3rd cent.
In the 12th century the Benedictines became the rulers of the
island of Mljet and took over the feudal power on the island. They
produced everything they needed for life themselves and taught it
to the population. The Benedictines became the ecclesiastical and
civil authorities of the island. With a document "Mljet Statute"
from 1345, the monastery waived all contributions and services to
the abbey for the inhabitants - after this liberation from serfdom,
Mljet became part of the "Republic of Regusa, (Dubrovnik) in 1410
until the end of the Republic in 1808.
Today, a third of the island belongs to the "National Park Mljet",
in the northern part of the island. Two salt lakes - Veliko and
Malo Jezero, the Benedictine monastery on the island of Sv. Marija
and in Polače is the Roman palace from the 3rd century, which with
its size ranks just behind Diocletian's Palace in Split, belongs to
the most valuable heritage of the island of Mljet.
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