The mouth of the Kotor, which is enclosed by the Verige gorge, forms a fjord 350m wide, the deepest in the Mediterranean, and is framed for a hundred kilometres by the steep summits and gullies of the Dinara Alps, reaching a height of 1 749m above Kotor. Once a part of Croatian Damatia, Kotor was joined to Montenegro in1945 when the second federal Yugoslavia was created.