The Cattaro mutiny occurred during World War I. Sailors of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Bay of Cattaro (today: Kotor, Montenegro), which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary, started it on 1 February 1918. The mutiny remained isolated and had to be abandoned after three days due to the arrival of loyal troops.

The siege of Cattaro was fought between a British Royal Naval detachment and Montenegrin forces under Captain William Hoste, John Harper and Petar I Petrović-Njegoš respectively and the French garrison under command of Jean-Joseph Gauthier of the mountain fortress of Cattaro (now Kotor, Montenegro).

A large ship lies at anchor in Cattaro (now Kotor, Montenegro), where the unsuccessful mutiny by sailors of the Austro-Hungarian Navy took place in February 1918.

Kotor has one of the best preserved medieval old towns in the Adriatic and is a double Unesco World Heritage Site: it is part of Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor and Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar.

At the outbreak of the First World War, the Austrian troops withdrew from the area around the bay of Kotor and, following orders, detonated the fortification. The state of preservation of the fortification site must be rated as precarious.

Feb 11, 2020 · The mariners in question for this post were the crew of the SMS Sankt Georg,* stationed in the aforementioned Kotor — aka Cattaro, which is commonly how this mutiny is named. On February 1, this crew, gnawed by hunger, deposed their officers and ran up the red flag, chanting for bread and peace.

Dec 10, 2015 · Navigating the crags of the hills and walls must have proven challenging to invaders, as they tried to find their way through the jumbled warren of Kotor’s streets and walls. But they built the...

The fortifications of Kotor (Italian: Cattaro) are an integrated historical fortification system that protected the medieval town of Kotor containing ramparts, towers, citadels, gates, bastions, forts, cisterns, a castle, and ancillary buildings and structures.

Nov 7, 2011 · Cattaro, the capital of the circle of the same name, is a small fortified town of 4000 inhabitants as of 1910. Cattaro is situated in magnificent scenery, at the extremity of the deep winding...

Explore an interactive historical timeline of the town of Kotor, through its two millennia of existence, and all the powerful European empires that leave historical, architectural and …