DULCIGNO, a seaport of Montenegro, Yugoslavia, on the Adriatic sea. Pop. (1921) 3,074, chiefly Albanians and Turks. Shut in by hills and forests, Dulcigno is the prettiest of Monte negrin towns. The old quarter, built on a promontory, is walled and has a mediaeval castle. There is a Roman Catholic cathedral and an ancient Latin church. Steamers call, and some ship building and fishing are carried on, but the harbour lacks shelter, and is liable to silting. Other industries are tobacco growing and olive oil refining.
To the Romans, who captured the town in 167 B.C. Dulcigno was known as Ulcinium or Olcinium ; in the middle ages it was a noted haunt of pirates; in 1S71 it was captured by the Turks from the Venetians. In 1718 it was the scene of a great Venetian defeat; in 1877 the Montenegrins took it from the Turks and in 1878 it was ceded to them by the Treaty of Berlin. The Turks however held it till 188o when the "Dulcigno demonstration" by the fleets of the Great Powers forced them to relinquish it.
