Konavle is a small region and municipality located southeast of Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

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It is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County

Dubrovnik-Neretva County

The Dubrovnik–Neretva County is the southernmost Croatian county located in south Dalmatia. The county seat is Dubrovnik and other large towns are Korčula, Metković, Opuzen and Ploče...

 and forms a municipality with its center at Gruda with a total population of 8,250 people (2001) split in 32 villages, in which 96.5% are Croats

Croats

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. Even though considerably damaged during the Croatian War of Independence

Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat...

, Konavle maintain its status as one of the wealthiest counties in all of Croatia

Croatia

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, consistently ranking amongst the ten richest counties.

Konavle is actually a narrow field located between the Sniježnica

Sniježnica

Sniježnica is a mountain located in the southernmost part of Croatia, north of the Konavle region. The eponymous highest peak is 1,234 m.a.s.l.-References:...

 mountain and the Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

, spanning the area from the coastal town of Cavtat

Cavtat

Cavtat ) is a town in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. It is on the Adriatic seacoast 15 km south of Dubrovnik and is the centre of the Konavle municipality.-History:...

 to the Montenegrin

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

 border at Prevlaka

Prevlaka

Prevlaka is a small peninsula in southern Croatia, at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor in the eastern Adriatic. The word prevlaka means portage. The cape Oštro, located at the tip of the peninsula, is the southernmost point of mainland in Croatia....

. Other than Cavtat, only the southernmost village of Molunat is located on the coast, while the other 30 villages are in the hinterland.

The Sniježnica peak at 1234 meters of altitude is the highest point of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and village of Kuna with its 700 m altitude is the highest village in the county. Although Gruda is the administrative center of the municipality, the largest settlement is Cavtat.

The airport for Dubrovnik is located near the Konavle village of Čilipi

Cilipi

Čilipi is a small village located in the municipality of Konavle, 22 km southeast from the town of Dubrovnik, in southern Croatia. It is connected by the D8 state road.Čilipi is mainly known for the nearby Dubrovnik Airport....

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Notable people from Konavle

• Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Ana Kesovija is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, one of the most recognisable figures on the Balkan music scene, renowned for her wide vocal range and operatic style and one of the most important artists of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a very successful career in France...
  
  , singer
• Vlaho Bukovac
  Vlaho Bukovac
  Vlaho Bukovac was a Croatian painter.-Life:- Early life :Bukovac was born Biagio Faggioni in the town of Cavtat south of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia...
  
  , painter
• Frano Supilo
  Frano Supilo
  Frano Supilo was a Croatian politician and journalist. He was a major political figure in the twenty years preceding World War I....
  
  , politician
• Baltazar Bogišić
  Baltazar Bogišic
  Valtazar Bogišić was a Serbian jurist, law historian and ethnologist. In domain of private law his most notable works are researches on family structure and the unique Montenegrin civil code from 1888. He is considered to be a pioneer in the area of sociology of law and legal ethnology research...
  
  , jurist & legal historian
• Ivan Gundulic
  Ivan Gundulic
  Ivan Franov Gundulić is the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels." Gundulić's major...
  
  , poet, Konavle Count.
• Anton Perich
  Anton Perich
  Anton Perich is an American Filmmaker, photographer and video artist, born in Dubrovnik in 1945. He lives and works in New York since 1970.-Biography:...
  
  , artist, filmmaker, poet

External links

• http://www.gruda.org/